Archive
Roadside memorial research needs participants
Monday, 15 Apr 2013A CSU social work researcher who is exploring the meaning and role that roadside memorials play in the grieving process seeks interviews with people associated with these memorials.
Climate change and Australia's obligations for significant wetlands
Monday, 15 Apr 2013A national meeting will this week debate what information Australia needs to meet its international obligations for its inland and coastal wetlands covered by the international Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
University cuts short-sighted and unwise
Sunday, 14 Apr 2013The $2.3 billion funding cuts to higher education announced unexpectedly by the Federal Government to fund school education reforms are short-sighted and unwise according to CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Vann.
Benefits in organ donor payment scheme
Friday, 12 Apr 2013It has been dubbed 'cash for kidneys' but a CSU medical ethicist believes payments for living organ donors will increase equality rather than exploit the poor.
CSU invites students to try IT doctorate for free
Thursday, 11 Apr 2013CSU is offering a free, five week long, online course to give prospective students a sense of what it would be like to undertake an IT doctorate.
SpICE students coming to a town near you
Thursday, 11 Apr 2013A project to help CSU students build specialist capacity in small rural towns across Australia will be expanded in 2013 to new communities and professions.
CSU opens new doors for nurses
Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013CSU will offer registered nurses two new ways to advance their knowledge with the Master of Nursing (with specialisations) and the Master of Clinical Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) courses to begin in 2014.
Layer hen study contradicts some long held beliefs
Tuesday, 9 Apr 2013A CSU researcher has taken a fresh approach in a new study into the welfare of egg-laying hens, finding the chance of a mortality outbreak didn’t differ between hens kept in battery cages or alternative systems like barns, furnished cages or free range birds.
NSW teacher proposal victimises rural students: CSU
Friday, 5 Apr 2013The recent NSW Government report aimed at improving the performance of NSW schools deserves broad support, but there is a sting in the tail for rural and regional communities said CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Vann.
Spread the word on animal welfare in live exports
Thursday, 4 Apr 2013An industry funded pilot training program, developed and tested by CSU academic Dr Rebecca Doyle and Schuster Consulting Group to improve the welfare of animals in live exports, has been extended to the Middle East.