A 'decade of chaos' is how rural health specialist Associate Professor Sue McAlpin from CSU has labelled health reforms experienced by regional Australia in the 1990s.

Smoothing the learning pathways from TAFE to University and reducing the 'culture shock' in moving between the two sectors are the aims of a new national research project being led by CSU academic, Dr Cathy Down.

Flying over the Himalayas in a private plane, scoring an extras role and credit in a Bollywood movie and working with disabled children in a Vietnamese orphanage are just some of the experiences that have opened the eyes and expanded the minds of CSU students.

CSU has begun vaccination training with its pharmacy students in the strongly held belief Australia will follow an international trend to allow pharmacists to vaccinate.

A world where emails, online chatrooms and virtual environments are a part of daily life, and where public communication is increasingly dominated by machines, is now ready to be taken back by humans, says a social researcher from CSU.

An iconic eucalypt tree growing in many areas burnt out in Victoria’s Black Saturday fires is better at re-sprouting after fire than first thought, says a senior botanist at CSU.

Disaster emergency management research by a CSU postgraduate student in New Zealand has found that 99 per cent of pet owners identified pets as part of their family, and that in an emergency, 56 per cent of owners would refuse to evacuate without their pets.

A CSU academic has condemned outright a proposal to extend a trial short course for new teachers from Victoria into Queensland.

A truly international partnership between higher education institutions in Australia and China will be formally signed at CSU on Friday 19 February.