<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>September 2009 </title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/_layouts/feed.aspx?xsl=1&amp;web=/newsroom/a/2009&amp;page=17d5cb2d-e5f0-45d3-853c-2a55d321e77a&amp;wp=71e747f1-7ebf-469e-ad5d-fe8298f203d0</link><description></description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Declaration recognises Indigenous land managers</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090928-Indigenous-land-managers.aspx</link><description>28/09/09 - The recent declaration of the Djelk and Warrdeken Indigenous Protected Areas demonstrates a growing recognition by Government of the crucial role Indigenous people play in managing northern Australian ecosystems.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:59:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applications open for Vision Australia Education Bursaries</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090918-Vision-Australia-Bursaries.aspx</link><description>18/09/09 - Applications are now open for Vision Australia’s Further Education Bursaries for 2010.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:09:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New research links computer games to social good</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090917-computer-games-social-good.aspx</link><description>17/09/09 - Some online computer games are good for the user’s social life, new research has found.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:46:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris Darwin laments the loss of ‘thinking’</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090916-Chris-Darwin-loss-of-thinking.aspx</link><description>16/09/09 - With modern education so focused on processing information and learning facts and figures, the skill of thinking has become a lost art, according to Charles Darwin’s great, great grandson.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:22:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saraswati statue signals countdown to Indonesian Garden completion</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/150909-Saraswati-statue-unveiled.aspx</link><description>15/09/09 - Charles Darwin University’s Indonesian garden has moved one step closer to completion with the unveiling of a symbolic new statue.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:04:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Imaging a different future for Indigenous Australia</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090914-Imaging-Indigenous-futures.aspx</link><description>14/09/09 - The bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, 2009, could also mark the end of social Darwinism in Australia.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:15:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU takes top training provider title at annual awards</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090914-CDU-training-awards.aspx</link><description>14/09/09 - Charles Darwin University has enjoyed outstanding success at the 2009 NT Training Awards, taking out the major training award for an institution and winning many individual categories.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:16:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Science and religion at the Charles Darwin Symposium</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090907-Science-and-religion.aspx</link><description>07/09/09 - The on-going tug-of-war between science and religion is a constant source of controversy, but it also provides a starting point for scholarly endeavours and philosophical debate, according to a Charles Darwin University academic.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:48:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Summer Semester a sizzling start to CDU study</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090904-Summer-Semester.aspx</link><description>04/09/09 - Territorians traditionally head for the air-conditioned indoors during the wet season and work slowly through their video libraries. But much more can be made of Summer 2009 by hunkering down to study.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:07:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook to help teacher professional development</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090903-Facebook-teacher-pd.aspx</link><description>03/09/09 - The Northern Territory Department of Education and Training is working with Charles Darwin University to trial a program of online professional development for Accelerated Literacy teachers in remote settings.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:55:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU announces Palmerston campus development</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/Palmerston-campus-development.aspx</link><description>02/09/09 - The Vice-Chancellor of Charles Darwin University today announced that the University would proceed with planning for constructing short term staff and student accommodation and a residential development at its Palmerston campus.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:47:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU helps students to Fast-Track Apprenticeships</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090901-Fast-Track-Apprenticeships.aspx</link><description>01/09/09 - Charles Darwin University is helping to alleviate the national skills shortage by providing apprentices with the opportunity to achieve their qualifications earlier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>International education Professor warns against school league tables</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090901-school-league-tables.aspx</link><description>01/09/09 - Visiting Durham University, Professor Peter Tymms has described school league tables as “carrots and sticks” in a recent Charles Darwin University (CDU) symposium about primary school student assessment.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:03:46 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>