A CSU lecturer in child youth and family welfare strongly endorses a recent call by leading paediatricians to outlaw physical chastisement of children.

CSU has called for a fundamental overhaul of strategies to address the chronic shortage of doctors in rural and remote Australia, questioning whether increasing incentive payments or forcing doctors to work in rural areas is the long-term answer.

The new Vice-Chancellor and President of CSU, Professor Andrew Vann, is committed to advancing the University's essential partnerships with its communities and stakeholders.

Within six months of taking up a new position as Professor of Information Studies at CSU in Australia, Lisa Given has been named in a $AUD1.53 million research project to improve paediatric emergency care in her home country of Canada.

CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator the Hon. Chris Evans, of funding for a new campus in Port Macquarie.

CSU has signed an historic five-year agreement to deliver its undergraduate journalism degree to students living in Geraldton and other regional centres in Western Australia.

Exploring the experiences of how Aboriginal children in urban areas move into school are the focus of a major research project that includes two senior education researchers at CSU.

Research into the aspirations of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds at Australian universities, challenges common preconceptions about how these students learn and the ways in which they are commonly taught and assessed at university.

A human face to the broad field of information studies could well be Canadian Lisa Given, a new Professor at CSU.