What happens outside the schoolyard may hold the key to improving the learning outcomes for young African refugees, according to CSU research.

A new Memorandum of Understanding has been signed that will bring together CSU TAFE NSW – Western Institute, Broken Hill City Council, University of Sydney Broken Hill Department of Rural Health, and Robinson College to work collaboratively to plan and develop opportunities for higher education for the communities of Broken Hill and the Far West Region of NSW.

Challenging the predominant view in the media about popular culture affecting young people only in detrimental ways, the research of a PhD recently awarded to a CSU lecturer argues that popular culture engages young people in complex and multiple lessons about identity and their place in the world.

A senior CSU education expert recommends parents, grandparents and early childhood educators should use play time to help develop mathematical concepts in young children.

When CSU needed a leader to establish and build a new university campus in the centre of Port Macquarie they chose to Dr Muyesser Durur.

New research conducted by a CSU academic has found children start school with 'highly sophisticated and rich' understandings of measurement, which they developed for themselves during everyday activities ahead of their formal education.

The newly-established CSU Regional and Remote Learning Support Team will make regular visits to towns around NSW to enhance CSU distance education students' experience of their courses and their prospects for successful completion.

Professional educators can gain a global perspective of teaching and learning when CSU offers its Master of International Education (School Leadership) to students from around the world through distance education in 2012.

Researchers at CSU are developing a fresh look at the world of early childhood education - directly through the eyes of young children who are not yet able to speak about their experiences.