The English literacy skills of teenage refugees in regional NSW have been boosted in the first trial of an Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation program outside the Sydney metropolitan area.

The Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University (CSU), Professor Ian Goulter, has welcomed the announcement of the ministerial appointments for the new Labor government by the Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, MP.

The Rotary Club of Orange has demonstrated its support of health in regional NSW by announcing a new scholarship to be offered through the Charles Sturt Foundation at Charles Sturt University.

People and communities will receive major benefits from a high capacity telecommunications link now running north-south through inland NSW. The new Mitchell Link is a high speed fibre optic line that connects Charles Sturt University campuses and other public and private partners across NSW.

Australian agriculture was always going to be excluded from any carbon trading scheme, according to CSU expert Professor Kevin Parton.

Charles Sturt University's National Radio News service will present its first-ever national coverage of a federal election on Saturday 24 November 2007.

Research on the weed serrated tussock, the invading ants on Fraser Island in Queensland, and the larvae of our native fish feature in the latest issue of Connections, the quarterly newsletter of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society.

A new senior academic position and a network for new veterinary graduates will benefit from a $600 000 financial commitment from the McCaughey Memorial Institute towards veterinary science programs at Charles Sturt University over the next five years.

Promises from major parties in the upcoming Federal election for tertiary education will not address the growing skills shortage in regional Australia, says the author of the recently released report, Youth Allowance and Regional Young People: Access to Tertiary Education, published jointly by Charles Sturt University and Monash University.