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You might look at a list of Karita McCarthy’s recent accomplishments and think that studying comes naturally to her. As a Bachelor of Nursing student at Charles Darwin University, Karita has certainly had a string of successes. But it wasn’t always that way...

Taking your studies outside the classroom can enrich your knowledge with real-world insights and understanding. And taking yourself even further out of your everyday - say, to live and study overseas for a semester - can bestow benefits such as learning another language, experiencing another culture, meeting new people, personal growth and having a great adventure. 

Alwyn Jose recently graduated with a Master of Information Technology (Software Engineering) at CDU. Last year, he won the IT Code Fair business and innovation challenge with his CDU Smart Parking system, which enables users to find vacant parking spaces via sensors that inform an app, when a driver comes within 2km of their destination. We asked him some questions about his experience as a CDU student. 

If you’re a year 12 student, maybe you had a pretty good idea of how you wanted life after high school to look, and maybe that’s no longer possible in quite the same way. If you’re looking for advice on how to cope with a change of tertiary study plans, you’ve come to the right place for advice.

We all know that plastic is bad news for the environment. The chemicals involved in production of plastics can find their way into waterways and plastic litter is making its way into landfill and the wilderness at alarming rates. We put the call out to the CDU team to see what they are doing to reduce their plastic use.

It’s not the norm for research projects to observe outcomes improved by 50 per cent. In fact, it’s quite unusual. But this is what CDU’s Indigenous Birthing in an Urban Setting (IBUS) research project has found. The results send a strong signal that the preterm birth gap can be reduced.