In a bid to help overcome the critical lack of scientists and science teachers, especially in inland Australia, Charles Sturt University will offer lucrative targeted scholarships to encourage high-quality on-campus applicants to science-based fields.

Promises from major parties in the upcoming Federal election for tertiary education will not address the growing skills shortage in regional Australia, says the author of the recently released report, Youth Allowance and Regional Young People: Access to Tertiary Education, published jointly by Charles Sturt University and Monash University.

The Federal Shadow Minister for Education and Training, Mr Stephen Smith, MP, will visit Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Bathurst Campus on Tuesday 13 November for talks with University executives, staff and students. He will be accompanied by Mr Bob Debus, Labor candidate for the new Federal electorate of Macquarie.

The Council, staff and students of Charles Sturt University are saddened by the death of Mr Peter Andren, the Independent member for the former Federal electorate of Calare which included CSU's Bathurst and Orange Campuses.

At 11.30 am today, Monday 31 August, Australia’s universities took the unprecedented step of launching a pre-election campaign directed at both the Government and the Opposition.

Listening to Associate Professor Tom Watson talk about his time as Head of the School of Communication at Charles Sturt University’s Bathurst Campus, the analogies with his favourite pastime – flying – prove too hard to resist.

Charles Sturt University will be part of the consortium that will help ‘internationalise’ Australian higher education. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop announced the 14 Universities that will make up the consortium yesterday.

Changes to the way the Federal Government funds research in Australian universities has brought about a restructure in research and graduate training at Charles Sturt University.

Charles Sturt University computer science student James Bekkema from Bathurst, NSW, has been awarded two Apple University Consortium Innovation Grants in competition with computing students from universities around Australia.