If like many high school leavers, COVID-19 has curtailed your gap year plans, we have good news. The plans may need to be adjusted, but you can still kick your gap year goals while studying.
If the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nursing is a hospital, think again. While the typical career path for many graduate nurses may lead to a hospital, Registered Nurses work in many places far removed from the walls of the ward. We’ve rounded up four examples.
Studying towards a degree takes time and dedication, but it needn't get in the way of achieving sporting, career or life goals. In fact, CDU student and Aussie kettlebell athlete Saga Wessman doesn't let anything stand in her way! Hear the inspiring story of this mentally and physically tough athlete and student.
Genevieve McGuiness has always known that she wanted a career working with and helping others. She chose a Bachelor of Social Work with CDU because she's able to study externally (online) from home, while she juggles her own small business and two young children.
With new foreign transparency laws set to come into effect on 1 March, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at CDU, John Garrick questions the extent to which the new laws will make visible the nature, level and extent of foreign influence on Australia’s government and political process.
We have all seen the images of war on our television screens. What happens when, inevitably, the guns fall silent and the blades are returned to their sheaths? When the red mist recedes, and some form of non-violent rationality raises its weary head above the bloodied parapets.
Peta's ultimate dream is to become the Mary Poppins of the postnatal world. And it's this commitment to excellence in maternal care that's motivating her to study a Bachelor of Midwifery online at CDU from thousands of kilometres away.
While Suzanne Van Engelenhoven has always been physically active, she'd never planned on turning her love for sport into a career. In fact, she never thought she'd go to university. Now, she's mid-way through an Exercise and Sport Science degree, with the goal of becoming a physiotherapist.
As the humanitarian aid and disaster management sector evolves, keeping up with best practice and new ways of responding to crises has never been more important. That’s exactly why Emma Kettle chose to return to uni to take on a postgraduate degree in Humanitarian, Disaster and Emergency Management.
It's your last year of high school. Maybe you know exactly what tertiary studies you want to pursue, or maybe you're still deciding or keen to take a break. The question is, to gap year or not gap year?