How to better equip pre-service teachers for inter-cultural understanding is the focus of a one-day teacher education conference at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Friday 7 February. The conference organiser, Dr Kathryn Edgeworth, a lecturer at the CSU School of Teacher Education, said, "Inter-cultural understanding is about preparing students to be active, informed, global citizens with a critical appreciation of Australia's social and cultural diversity. Participants will examine how education professionals in urban and rural locations can best prepare pre-service teachers to work in increasingly diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. Primary and secondary school teachers are welcome to attend this free one-day conference." The conference runs from 8.30am to 3pm in building N17 at CSU in Bathurst. More information about the conference can be found here, and the conference program is here. Associate Professor Carole Reid from the School of Education and Centre for Educational Research at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) will present a keynote address, and researchers from CSU, UWS, and Deakin University will participate.