An IT professional with extensive experience in the commercial and financial sectors, both in Australia and internationally, has joined CSU to oversee its information and communication technologies.

Visiting the abattoir and learning how to grade a carcase may seem an unusual way to spend your spare time but it has led to a world of opportunity for CSU student Ms Vanessa Campbell.

To say the new Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU in Australia has hit the ground running may be an understatement.

The training and employment prospects for CSU students in the Faculty of Business will be enhanced when representatives of the University and the National Australia Bank sign a Memorandum of Understanding in Bathurst on Thursday 27 June.

CSU Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) students will soon be getting hands-on experience in a range of new settings thanks to a pilot program at CSU in Port Macquarie.

CSU Bachelor of Veterinary Science student Ms Kerryn Illes has won a trip to South Africa to work in an animal orphanage as part of the AustralianSuper KickStart competition. The prize package also includes a four day elephant safari to Kruger National Park.

They have been eating and selling chocolates with a fury and for a worthy cause.

It has been a truly international education for Dr Sitti Maesuri Patahuddin who, along with her family, is settling into her first 'real' Australian winter.

CSU students from the Faculty of Business will begin a two-week study tour to China on Saturday 22 June to gain a better understanding of dealing with the strongest emerging economic power in the world.