With more than 25 years international experience, a lecturer and researcher who has been appointed as the new head of the CSU School of Human Movement Studies in Bathurst challenges the purpose of physical education in schools and society by asking, is it to promote physical fitness, or just a break from classroom routine?

A study by CSU researchers has found that people often experience social disconnection, loneliness, and desperation when residential aged care is inaccessible to them in their rural communities.

The spiralling rise in shooting crimes in Sydney's western suburbs requires strong and sustained political, community and police action to make suburbs safe for the public, according to a CSU senior policing lecturer who lives in one of the affected neighbourhoods.

The proposed expansion of the paramedic program at CSU will lead to a better trained workforce to meet the complex needs of modern emergency care and will save lives. The proposal is as part of CSU's $63.6 million bid to the Education Investment Fund to expand health disciplines taught at CSU in Orange and Bathurst.

On the eve of the Federal Government's inaugural National Safe Schools Week, Professor Paul Burnett, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Graduate Training at Charles Sturt University, talks about the damage caused by bullying.

In commissioning the TV documentary 'I Can Change Your Mind About Climate', to be broadcast on Thursday 26 April, the ABC has been duped by the climate change denier tactic of doubt-mongering, says Professor Clive Hamilton, the Vice-Chancellor's Chair of Public Ethics at CSU.

Research that questioned the effectiveness of public funding for repairing environmental damage over the past 20 years has resulted in mixed answers, says a lead researcher in the recently completed Landscape Logic project, CSU's Professor Allan Curtis.

The new campus of CSU in Port Macquarie will be officially opened by Senator the Hon. Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research on Tuesday 1 May. Member for Lyne, Mr Rob Oakeshott, MP, will also attend the formal ceremony, which will begin with an academic procession at 10.30am, followed by a 'Welcome to Country' by Aboriginal Elder Mr William O'Brien ('Uncle Bill').

The educational potential of computer games that emphasises cooperative rather than aggressive behaviour, has landed a Charles Sturt University academic a $60 000 Federal Government grant.