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Charlie – Your Student Voice

Hi! Welcome to Charlie – Your Student Voice. Here you will find meaningful stories, common ground and an array of guidance or advice to support you at uni. Charlie is a space for students, by students which you're able to share simply by reading along or joining our community of student contributors. The Charlie Team are just a click away if you ever wish to reach out. Happy reading!

Muhammad Maarj

Making a difference to children living in poverty

Muhammad Maarj is a former asylum seeker helping to change the lives of disadvantaged and orphaned children living in poverty. He’s also a CSU Student Ambassador studying a Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine in Albury-Wodonga. When he was five...

Could you save on your HECS?

Could you save on your HECS?

Studying maths, science, teaching, nursing, midwifery or early childhood? You need to know about the HECS-HELP Benefit! This is a special shout-out to all maths, science, nursing, midwifery and early childhood students, particularly those who might...

Alicia Quirk playing rugby sevens

Physio student shares tips for study and sport

Juggling study commitments can be challenging at the best of times but imagine doing it while representing your country as an elite athlete. Bachelor of Physiotherapy student Alicia Quirk is part of the Australian women’s rugby sevens team, which...

Georgia Thompson

Real-life learning in lead-up to Rio

A tip from one of her lecturers led student Georgia Thompson to combine her two loves– sport and journalism – in her workplace learning with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) in the lead-up to Rio 2016. A third-year Bachelor of Sports Studies /...

group of female students studying

Tips to get you through exams

By Maddie Catanzaro With exams upon us, learning all the content you need to know can be rough, but with the help of CSU’s Academic Learning Literacy and Numeracy (ALLaN) team, I’ve compiled a list of tips and tricks to get you through...

Get yourself exam-ready

Get yourself exam-ready

Exam time has rolled around again. Everyone handles the preparation and pressure of exams differently.
Television student Maddie Catanzaro caught up with some students on campus to see how they plan for the final assessments.

CSU student Anna Eggleton with women in traditional Japanese dress

Colombo recipient finds new language and respect for wildlife

CSU student Anna Eggleton has picked up a new language and a renewed appreciation for wildlife during her eight-month study trip to Japan. Anna studied with Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University at Beppu city on Kyushu, Japan as part of a New Colombo...

Connecting council and community - Wagga Wagga City Council's bright yellow community engagement truck

Council wants to hear from you

Uni students make a big contribution to the lifestyle and events in Wagga Wagga, and now it’s your turn to help shape the city’s future. Wagga Wagga City Council’s community engagement truck, Charlie, will be on campus at CSU...

Young boys and girls working on laptop concentrating

Bonus data makes up for outage

The Division of Information Technology (DIT) apologises for any inconvenience caused by an unplanned disruption to on campus network services from late in the evening of Friday 27 May until midday Saturday 28 May. As such, we are providing all...

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