Vice-Chancellor and President of CSU, Professor Ian Goulter, has congratulated Senator Bob Brown, Leader of the Australian Greens, on the election outcome.

CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, today confirmed that the University has been working closely with the North Coast Institute of TAFE (NCIT) and Port Macquarie-Hastings Council to address the higher education needs of Port Macquarie and the mid-north coast and inland region.

A recent report, Experiences of Beginning Teachers, found that the teaching profession is “attracting graduates…who have a passion for making a difference to the lives of the learners with whom they work”. Other research, by the New South Wales Teachers Education Council (NSWTEC) found that student teachers are described by their principals as “fantastic”. So why is the quality of teacher training at Australian universities being questioned?

A CSU academic who proposed the addition of an education centre to the historic home in Bathurst of former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley and his wife Elizabeth, is delighted his vision has come to fruition and that the facility will be opened by The Hon. Ms Julia Gillard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, on Saturday 18 September.

The implications of 'social networking' for covert operations by police will be investigated by researchers at CSU.

Progress with the development of perennial grain crops in Australia and overseas is one of the projects occupying the mind of Strategic Research Professor in Agronomy at CSU, Len Wade.

In a world “becoming much more conservative and fundamentalist” Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Theology “is desperately needed”, according to Rev Dr Stephen Pickard, Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre, and Head of the School in Canberra. The School is set to expand significantly with the signing of an agreement on Friday (24 November) with the United Theological College (UTC) in Parramatta.

CSU has won fresh acclaim for its long-term commitment to environmental sustainability by winning a major award at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Melbourne last night, Thursday 30 September.

In a disturbing new development in the war in Iraq, it was reported this week that insurgents had used children in a suicide bomb attack.