A project to help CSU students build specialist capacity in small rural towns across Australia will be expanded in 2013 to new communities and professions.

CSU will offer registered nurses two new ways to advance their knowledge with the Master of Nursing (with specialisations) and the Master of Clinical Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) courses to begin in 2014.

A CSU researcher has taken a fresh approach in a new study into the welfare of egg-laying hens, finding the chance of a mortality outbreak didn’t differ between hens kept in battery cages or alternative systems like barns, furnished cages or free range birds.

The recent NSW Government report aimed at improving the performance of NSW schools deserves broad support, but there is a sting in the tail for rural and regional communities said CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Vann.

An industry funded pilot training program, developed and tested by CSU academic Dr Rebecca Doyle and Schuster Consulting Group to improve the welfare of animals in live exports, has been extended to the Middle East.

CSU lecturer at the United Theological College within the School of Theology, Dr Ben Myers, has received international acclaim for his latest book, Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams.

Researchers from CSU will go back to where the problem of Paterson’s curse began for Australia – in the Mediterranean.

CSU's announcement it would build a campus of its proposed medical school in Wagga Wagga has prompted an enthusiastic response from residents.

CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Vann, has raised concerns about the reliability of data suggesting that 90 per cent of teacher education graduates in NSW and Queensland failed to find jobs after graduation.