CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter, today welcomed the release of the Report of the Bradley Review of the Australian Higher Education System. The Report follows the announcement last week that Charles Sturt University and Southern Cross University had been invited by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, to request funding for a feasibility study for their proposal to integrate with one other inter-state university.

Despite optimistic expectations for significant action, the Rudd government announcement on Monday 15 December of its long-awaited climate change targets, including a five per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020, has been met with scepticism and disappointment.

The Vice-Chancellor of CSU, Professor Ian Goulter, today called for some serious thinking in the university sector following the release of the Bradley Review and CSU's joint proposal with Southern Cross University (SCU) to conduct a feasibility study into the establishment of a new national university based in regional Australia.

Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, to the Wagga Wagga Campus yesterday, Wednesday 21 January.

If you’ve been wondering what the young man driving around the district in a ute with a weird antennae thing on the back is up to these past few weeks, rest assured it’s all for a good cause.

Charles Sturt University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Chambers, has welcomed the announcement by Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, MP, of $2.5 million in new scholarships to enable allied health students to undertake clinical placements in rural or remote communities during their degrees.

CSU has received a record number of applications for distance education study in its paramedic course which leads to a career as a paramedic. Annual surveys have regularly rated paramedics as 'the most trusted profession'.

The Professor of Public Ethics at CSU has backed the call by the 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, for a national debate over the meaning of and date for Australia Day.

Two lecturers at CSU argue that the recent suggestion that 'extreme' cases of obese children should be taken from their families for therapeutic intervention is fraught with problems for the child, the family and ultimately for health professionals and authorities.