A CSU lecturer who previously worked with ABC journalist Sean Dorney says his expulsion from Fiji for reporting on the collapse of democracy there is a worrying development for the troubled Pacific nation and for the region.

CSU and the Ambulance Service of NSW have collaborated to offer the 'Ambulance Accelerated Pathway' to fast-track entry into the paramedic profession and guarantee employment with Ambulance while students still study for a paramedic degree.

Charles Sturt University and Southern Cross University have welcomed the announcement of funding for a feasibility study into the creation of a new national university based in regional Australia.

Charles Sturt University and the Canberra Institute of Technology will sign an agreement today, Friday 6 March, to create higher education pathways between the two institutions for students from the Australian Capital Territory, regional NSW, and overseas.

A $9.2 million development that addresses new ways of learning at CSU at Albury-Wodonga will commence operation on Monday 9 February, in time for orientation week for new students and the 2009 academic year.

Students studying dentistry at CSU will be the beneficiaries of a significant new scholarship scheme announced today by the Foundation Head of the CSU School of Dentistry and Health Sciences, Professor Ward Massey.

Charles Sturt University has significantly increased the number of offers to applicants for on campus undergraduate courses in 2009.

Less than three months after receiving top honours at the state level, CSU student Mrs Jill Morris has gone on to be named Vocational Student of the Year at the Australian Training Awards.

A landmark partnership between CSU and Australian distributor, Henry Schein Halas, will ensure that students of the University's new dentistry and oral health courses will gain their dental training experience in a fully digital clinical and preclinical environment that offers the most advanced dental equipment of any education facility in Australia.