Two thousand young musicians from all over the world will march to the same beat for the first time when they come together as the Sydney 2000 Olympic Marching Band in just a few weeks.

Charles Sturt University has made an offer of 13.1 per cent salary increase over three years to its academic staff.

Graduates of Charles Sturt University's School of Visual & Performing Arts are celebrating a run of successes with accolades for its new filmmakers and an acting role in the latest Star Wars movie.

A growing rate of offshore enrolments at Charles Sturt University is set to increase with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with China's Kingold Private University on 5 November.

Charles Sturt University has increased its share of industry-linked grants, with a number of projects aimed to benefit regional Australia following the announcement of Australian Research Council funding for 2001.

The world's first clear sequence of images taken of a "near miss" space rock that zoomed past Earth this week were taken by Australia's first remotely controlled telescope at Charles Sturt University.

Charles Sturt University will increase employment opportunities for graduates in science, mathematics and information technology with three new double degree courses to be offered next year.

Snowfights, spills on skis and snowmen are memories frozen on film snapped by Malaysian students on a visit to the Australian snowfields this week.

"When in times to come our tale is told The world will praise what we accomplished here This proud city on the western plain Its glory will remain"