Winemakers and vignerons from throughout Australia and overseas are expected to return to Wagga Wagga for the 25th reunion of wine education at Charles Sturt University today, Friday 29 June.

Achieving a balance between quality and access has resulted in the decision to increase the student contribution level at Charles Sturt University by 25 per cent for 2006.

Charles Sturt University will continue to meet with members of the National Tertiary Education Union to progress enterprise bargaining negotiations. 

Charles Sturt University researchers Gerry Voll and Dr Bill Robbins have completed and published research looking at small businesses in regional Australia and unfair dismissal laws.

Brett Van Heekeren’s vision to make Charles Sturt University’s advertising degree the most successful and respected industry based program in Australia has won him the 2002 International Advertising Association’s (IAA) Harrison L Harold Award for academics.

Charles Sturt University’s sound financial position has been demonstrated in the NSW Auditor-General’s report tabled in State Parliament yesterday, Wednesday 18 May.

Rice, the staple food of almost half the world each day, is the world’s most important agricultural crop grown on six of the seven continents.

In an Australian first, a Professor of Rural Pharmacy has been appointed after the NSW Department of Health and Charles Sturt University (CSU) joined forces to address the shortages of pharmacists.

The new heads of four of Charles Sturt University’s key research centres have been appointed, signalling a greater focus by the University on its areas of research strength, according to CSU Vice-Chancellor Ian Goulter.