A 'decade of chaos' is how rural health specialist Associate Professor Sue McAlpin from CSU has labelled health reforms experienced by regional Australia in the 1990s.

Smoothing the learning pathways from TAFE to University and reducing the 'culture shock' in moving between the two sectors are the aims of a new national research project being led by CSU academic, Dr Cathy Down.

Flying over the Himalayas in a private plane, scoring an extras role and credit in a Bollywood movie and working with disabled children in a Vietnamese orphanage are just some of the experiences that have opened the eyes and expanded the minds of CSU students.

The forthcoming Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to restore the ailing river system, say more than 30 of Australia’s leading freshwater scientists in a statement made on Thursday 11 March.

CSU has begun vaccination training with its pharmacy students in the strongly held belief Australia will follow an international trend to allow pharmacists to vaccinate.

The dramatic plan outlined on Wednesday 3 March for the funding of Australian health care has been described by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a means to ensuring Australians continue to enjoy access to world class health care.

A world where emails, online chatrooms and virtual environments are a part of daily life, and where public communication is increasingly dominated by machines, is now ready to be taken back by humans, says a social researcher from CSU.

The new national curricula for English, mathematics, science and history must deal with the huge variety of situations teachers find themselves in, says a senior CSU expert.

An iconic eucalypt tree growing in many areas burnt out in Victoria’s Black Saturday fires is better at re-sprouting after fire than first thought, says a senior botanist at CSU.