Historically Australia has had an impressive record in assisting refugees but in more recent times refugees and asylum seekers have endured a rapidly changing profile in Australian society.

Leading marketing expert and educationalist Professor Roger Layton AM, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of New South Wales will give a special seminar on new management practice and its relevance for Australian universities.

The first year it was a giant map of Australia, the next a huge wallaby. This year it will be the biggest effort yet - a 1.2 kilometre long goanna.

Regional businesses will have the opportunity to take advantage of specialised management and psychological expertise with the launch of Charles Sturt University's Organisational Services Unit in Bathurst tomorrow.

Dr Colleen McDonogh had a long and distinguished involvement with Charles Sturt University and its predecessor institutions in Bathurst.

The push to recruit more police officers to the NSW Police Service gives opportunities for a diverse range of people interested in a policing career, according to Charles Sturt University's Associate Professor Tracey Green.

Australia's refugee policy and current issues and research on asylum seekers will be examined by academics and human rights organisations at a national conference in Sydney on Friday 20 October.

Charles Sturt University has been praised for its role in the Modern Pentathlon at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

It has taken Elaine Dunn half a century to get the much-desired letters she wants after her name, and now at 71 she's sizing up the prospect of continuing on to a Masters degree as well.