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Visiting North American Indigenous scholar Stephen Neyooxet Greymorning, pictured, has come to Australia to share an astonishing language technique.
Professor Greymorning has developed a way of teaching languages, called Accelerated Second Language Acquisition, so that a total novice can be speaking and understanding a foreign language with conversational ease after as little as 18 hours tuition.
SCU [...]

Climate change researchers at Southern Cross University are calling on residents in the Tweed and Richmond river catchments to contribute to a comprehensive rainfall study.
Associate Professor Graham Jones, a lecturer in the School of Environmental Science and Management and director of the University’s Centre for Climate Change Studies, is supervising a student project which will [...]

When Lennox Head teenager Carly Bindon was sick and no mainstream doctors could diagnose what was wrong with her, she turned to a naturopath for treatment.
That positive experience led to her regaining her health and shaped the course of her future.
Carly applied to study for a Bachelor of Naturopathy degree at Southern Cross University and [...]

Southern Cross University has announced plans to build a new $20 million campus on a site adjacent to the Gold Coast Airport and to transform its existing Tweed Heads campus into a Graduate College of Management.
The new campus site is controlled by the Gold Coast Airport Corporation.
Southern Cross University Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Clark said the [...]

Revolutionary computer software that could make conventional classrooms a thing of the past and enhance the learning of distance education students has been adopted by Southern Cross University.
The new state-of-the-art, web-based audio conferencing software Elluminate Live! is being rolled out across all three campuses at Lismore, Tweed Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour for the first [...]

Acclaimed Indigenous actor David Gulpilil will give a public talk on peace and healing during Orientation Week at Southern Cross University.
Mr Gulpilil will be welcomed to kuntri by Bundjalung, Arakwal, Widjabal and Yaegal Elders at a gathering being hosted at Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples next week and give his public talk the following [...]

Ballina Shire primary schools are being invited to join other North Coast schools in applying for grants to encourage their students to be more active, thanks to a partnership between the North Coast Area Health Service, the NSW Cancer Council Northern Region and the Australian Sports Commission.
Last year Tyalla Public School in Coffs Harbour received [...]

Food technology courses in high schools are not keeping pace with new food innovations, changes in how we use food and new eating patterns, a Southern Cross University researcher has warned.
And even though there is a great breadth of study in nutrition and related areas, the effect that many new generation ‘dead’ foods can have [...]

Ballina’s Blake Bambrook, who completed Year 12 at Ballina High last year, was honoured with an invitation to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden last December. Here is his account of the trip …
Five weeks of your life can go by so quickly that the memories of that period can easily fade into a blur. [...]

Holidays are over and for returning high school students it will be their new School Liaison Police Officer who will greet them in 2007.
In 2006, the NSW Government announced the creation of 40 School Liaison Police, which has led to their launch at local high schools as of tomorrow.
NSW Police says that SLP will work [...]