Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Information Technology is collaborating with Hornsby TAFE College in Sydney to develop a two-year Games Diploma course. Hornsby TAFE Head Teacher Greg Higgs said during a recent “cultural exchange” four Hornsby staff travelled with a dozen students to CSU Bathurst Campus, where students from both institutions indulged in pizza and held a “computer games fest while we sat down with CSU staff to talk about credit transfer.” Exchange organiser Errol Chopping, a CSU lecturer in Computer Science, says a credit transfer package is underway. “It looks like they would get credit for three to four subjects in our Computer Science (Games Technology) degree and similar standing in our Computer Science degree. We in turn get interest from potential students and an awareness in the Hornsby region of what we do. It was positive in all respects.” Greg Higgs agrees. “Our students got a first hand look at CSU and the facilities there and they were thrilled to know they had fellow students across the ‘sandstone curtain’”, he said. “It was also really supportive for the staff. When you have common goals and common interests it leads to an intellectual and technical exchange.”