CSU will initiate a pilot program in early 2012 to provide Aboriginal students who have the commitment and passion to improve education in their communities with the facilities and support to remain and study there to become fully-accredited teachers.

A proposal by the Australian Dental Association (ADA) to restrict the number of Australian students enrolling in dental programs would hurt rural communities says Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice Chancellor, Professor Andrew Vann.

CSU's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sue Thomas has been named as a new member of the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Advisory Council.

A unique collaboration between varied institutions and community stakeholders Australia-wide has successfully enabled a new set of educational resources to be developed through the Early Childhood Education Workforce Capacity Project (ECEWC Project).

The findings from a major collaborative research project led by researchers from CSU will be used to help improve the number and rate of success of Indigenous business enterprises across Australia.

A senior CSU Indigenous academic says news of the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship will inspire current Indigenous students at CSU and everywhere to aim high and study hard.

A CSU academic warns that a plan to establish a panel of experts to advise the Federal Government on what form constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians should take is unlikely to yield a result that is either substantive or useful.

Two leading academics will deliver keynote addresses at the annual CSU conference for its academics, CSUEd 2010, at the University in Bathurst on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November.

Australia is seeing the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policing students commence the Associate Degree in Policing Practice, with the increase in numbers attributed to the cohesive relationship between Charles Sturt University (CSU) , TAFE NSW, and the NSW Police Force, and their current program to attract students.