Charles Sturt University has been praised for its role in the Modern Pentathlon at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Australia's refugee policy and current issues and research on asylum seekers will be examined by academics and human rights organisations at a national conference in Sydney on Friday 20 October.

It has taken Elaine Dunn half a century to get the much-desired letters she wants after her name, and now at 71 she's sizing up the prospect of continuing on to a Masters degree as well.

Graduation at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst Campus this year will be a history making event with the completion of the new gymnasium and auditorium building, the first permanent home in the history of the Campus for such ceremonies.

Malaysia's Deputy Minister of Education will be a special guest at the graduation of more than 250 students from Charles Sturt University, Australia's largest distance education provider, in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday 12 March.

Contrary to views screened in some TV crime shows, developing successful criminal profiles depend on the rigour of the scientific method rather than psychic powers, according to the winner of the 2000 Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking.

A five year partnership between Charles Sturt University and St Mark's National Theological College in Canberra, has laid a solid foundation for the future of university theological education in Australia, particularly for regional and rural areas.

Working as a Sydney 2000 Olympics volunteer will give School of Clinical Sciences associate lecturer Luke Barclay the chance to see a side of elite international competitors that very few will ever see - their insides.

Charles Sturt University students will see the glory and the pain of Sydney 2000 Olympics Games first hand when they join the vast army of volunteers at the event.