Inadequate school counselling services, and the need for formal training to guide students, compounds the controversial school chaplaincy program in Australia's public schools, says Dean of CSU's Faculty of Education, Professor Toni Downes.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter today welcomed the announcement of $5.4 million in funding for the Faculty of Education to lead a national research network in early childhood education with Queensland University of Technology and Monash University.

ABC's Four Corners program on Monday 30 May showed Australian cattle being subjected to inhumane treatment in Indonesian abattoirs and has prompted calls for an immediate ban on live exports to Indonesia. Experts from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences are well placed to comment on the welfare of animals, meat produce market and the live export industry.

The future of Charles Sturt University was further secured recently when the CSU Council re-appointed Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter, Chancellor Lawrie Willett AO and Deputy Chancellor Ian Macintosh AM. It is this team that recently unveiled CSU’s new five-year corporate strategy that Professor Goulter says will "focus on what we do well; deliver distinctive and quality educational programs for the professions, concentrate on our research on agricultural and regional sustainability, and lead the nation in distance education".

After the recent rejection of water recycling from sewerage by Toowoomba residents in southern Queensland, a Charles Sturt University expert in the social impact of water management says the “no” vote reflects public perceptions of risk in public health and environmental issues.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) Adjunct Lecturer and leading Australian cyber security expert, Dr Craig Wright has been appointed as the Asia Pacific Director of Global Institute for Cyber security Research (GICSR), an international non-profit organisation seeking to advance a comprehensive range of cyber security initiatives, cyber innovations and research.

Associate Professor Charles Fogliani AM has had a life-long love affair…but his wife doesn’t mind. It’s Chemistry he feels passionate about and will devote even more time to now that he is retiring after 36 years at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

Research from Charles Sturt University has shown that businesses in regional NSW are concerned with the proposed changes to electoral boundaries resulting in the loss of one seat in the Federal Parliament for NSW.

Racial and religious intolerance is nothing new…it might be hard for Generation X to believe, but it wasn’t so long ago that Protestants looked down on Catholics who were enemies with the Freemasons…and they were almost all prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, according to Dr Robert Tierney, lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU).