Charles Sturt University will be part of the consortium that will help ‘internationalise’ Australian higher education. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop announced the 14 Universities that will make up the consortium yesterday.

Student well-being at Charles Sturt University will receive a welcome boost with the appointment of nine student welfare coordinators to its main campuses at Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga in coming weeks.

Industry-standard presentations and recommendations were the hallmarks of pitches by CSU advertising students in the finals of the International Advertising Association 2013 'Big Idea' competition in Sydney on Monday 11 November.

CSU and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are launching a collaborative project to introduce Indigenous students from rural and regional NSW to university education and careers associated with the ABC.

Two research projects at Charles Sturt University (CSU) have been granted a total of $580 000 to investigate the benefits and harms of birds and insects to horticulture, and the role of virtues in social services.

A CSU social work researcher is hoping to shine a light on the secrecy, shame and stigma of drug-use and drug-related deaths in Australia.

The Vice-Chancellor and President of CSU, Professor Andrew Vann, says yesterday's cuts to the Australian higher education sector, announced by the federal government, will impact on the University and its capacity to contribute to the productivity of regional and rural Australia.

Charles Sturt University computer science student James Bekkema from Bathurst, NSW, has been awarded two Apple University Consortium Innovation Grants in competition with computing students from universities around Australia.

Four Charles Sturt University third year journalism students have been awarded prestigious scholarships by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in a precedent dubbed ‘a huge honour’ by Mr Chris McGillion, senior lecturer in journalism at the School of Communication.