As the Chinese higher education sector heads into a period of rapid change, its senior administrators are getting an inside look at how Australian universities are run.

Charles Sturt University has been granted $3.7 million in prestigious Australian Research Council funding, including more than $2.6 million to establish a national Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

The International Nature Tourism Project is an arm of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism.

The success of Charles Sturt University in increasing its overseas student market has been recognised with a Highly Commended award in the 1999 Premier's NSW Exporter of the Year Awards.

Two Charles Sturt University asthma education students will be awarded $6 000 in scholarship funding at the 1999 Australian Asthma Conference in Darwin today.

In recognition of the growing cost for university students and their parents in tertiary education, for the first time Charles Sturt University is offering financial assistance to students in accommodation on CSU campuses.

Budding researchers will be heartened by a $100, 000 injection by Charles Sturt University into funding for research into science, agriculture and information technology.

President of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board Chris Puplick will deliver the final 1999 Bathurst graduation address to graduates from Charles Sturt University's Faculties of Arts and Science & Agriculture on Friday afternoon.

While most voters in the Armidale region decided against giving young Martin Lawrence their number 1 vote, Charles Sturt University had no hesitation in awarding him the highest graduate academic honour.