In a shake-up of its course profile, Charles Sturt University will slash 20 courses with no student enrolments and cut a further 28 with low numbers. The university announced it would make changes to a further 61 offerings, and “revitalise” ...

Charles Sturt University will slash around 13 per cent of its current slate of subjects, bringing its 2019 offering of 4751 subjects down by 600. The news came on the back of a projected 2020 budget deficit for the university ...

What’s in a name? Potential damage to reputation for one US university. For the most part, Australian universities keep it simple when picking a name – opting almost exclusively for geographical references or notable figures. But basing an institution’s name ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan’s $80-million pledge for “performance-based” university funding will have many “unforeseeable”, “perverse” and “unintended” consequences for Australia’s higher education sector, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has warned. NTEU president Alison Barnes said: “The creation of ...

The wheels are still moving on an Australian pilot of a classification system that recognises university success beyond academic rankings. Charles Sturt University and University of Technology Sydney last year announced they will lead a pilot of the Carnegie Community ...

The Regional Universities Network (RUN) has a new member in Charles Sturt University. CSU decided to join RUN to help advocate for regional universities, their students and communities. It has campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Port Macquarie and Wagga ...

Charles Sturt University’s VC has assured students that it’s “business as usual” on site after the story of its conditional registration renewal spread. In April this year, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) confirmed CSU's registration for a period ...

Charles Sturt University won’t change its name but will get a lick of paint. The university announced earlier this year that it was considering changing from its current name to simply Sturt University (SU), among other suggestions. It subsequently held ...

The tiny, landlocked eastern Himalayan nation of Bhutan measures its success not by wealth – but by happiness. This is no mere slogan; it evaluates it annually using a Gross National Happiness (GNH) scale, per the terms of its 2008 ...

The fashion in universities and other public sector organisations for 'shared services' did not spring from nowhere. Yes Minister in the 1980s featured an episode about a hospital that had 500 administration staff, but could not afford to employ nurses ...