More than 200 students at CSU are
benefiting from personalised tutoring and academic support through the new Indigenous
Student Success Program (ISSP).
Plans
to stop recruiting doctors from overseas will worsen rural doctor shortages,
according to Mr Mark Burdack, Executive Director of the Murray Darling Medical
School initiative.
Charles Sturt University (CSU) will create a $2 million contingency fund to support students caught out by the uncertainty surrounding the federal government's proposed changes to higher education.
Science and innovation will be top of the agenda when Australia's
Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel visits CSU in Orange
on Monday 10 October to deliver a free public lecture.
CSU PhD researcher Ms Jodie Goldney has developed
an online test to assess the personal attributes of prospective workers seeking
employment in mental health.
The latest report from the
Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand shows that less than 18 per cent of
final-year medical students intend to work in rural or regional practice after
graduation.
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