Charles Sturt University students around the world, from Davis Station in Antarctica to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, will tackle exams in some 330 different subjects over the next two weeks.

This Spring exam session will test knowledge through a total of 32,000 examination papers for CSU students worldwide between 15 and 26 November, including distance education students working in 83 overseas examination centres, and scattered around 170 sites throughout Australia.

The bulk of the exams will be staged at the University's regional campuses in Albury, Bathurst, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga.

Some international centres will host individual sessions for students, including two at the most southerly Australian Antarctic Station situated 2250 nautical miles south-south-west of Perth, and three students who are part of the Peace Keeping Force in Bougainville who will take their examinations "in the field". There are also CSU students among the Armed Forces personnel deployed to East Timor.

Supplementary exams will be arranged for them on return to Australia. Examination centres in every State around Australia include 12 in correctional centres, two students out on Navy ships, and seven isolated students - such as one on a Customs patrol boat in the Torres Strait, and another living on the South Australia-Queensland border, 456 km from the nearest town.

University regulations require students who live within 120km of an established centre to attend that centre, and anyone further afield can apply to have a centre established for their own needs.

Overseas examination centres have been set up in the following countries; Norway, Finland, USA, Israel, Hong Kong, mainland China, Canada, Spain, Argentina, France, England, Ireland, PNG, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Mauritius, Macau, India, Malaysia, Japan, Brunei, Singapore and Antarctica.