Research by a leading expert in reproductive tourism has highlighted how bans on commercial surrogacy in Thailand has done little to stop the practice rather it can often leave the surrogate feeling unsupported by the community and exploited.
Surrogacy is an agreement in which a woman, the surrogate, carries a pregnancy to term for intended parents and then relinquishes the baby born as part of the arrangement.
Territorian Zoe Boyle dreamed of being a florist or marine biologist when she grew up, but it was a Charles Darwin University (CDU) nursing degree that opened her eyes to the world of opportunities within the NT’s own healthcare system.
Ms Boyle, 33, has dedicated her career to Darwin Private Hospital ever since she joined as a graduate nurse over a decade ago.
A partnership between Charles Darwin University (CDU) and Project21 is giving Territorians with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities valuable life and career skills in the kitchen.
A cohort of Project21 students recently graduated from CDU’s Food Safety Supervision Skill Set at the Karawa Training Restaurant, based at the University’s Palmerston campus.
Charles Darwin University Northern Institute Honorary Research Fellow Dr Don Zoellner recently presented at the Journal of Vocational Education and Training (JVET) Conference.
His presentation “Peering over VET policy horizons towards public value: multiplicity, conceptual confusion and ontological rhetorics,” argues that Australia’s national VET market is an example of successful public policy implementation, but after 30 years the market is nearing the end of a normal business life cycle.
Senior Researcher at Charles Darwin University’s Northern Institute, Kate Golebiowska has recently returned from Atlanta in the United States where, as a Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholar, she furthered her research into the impact of business acceleration for migrant women micro-entrepreneurs.
Two outstanding students from Nepal are ready to embark on their education journey at Charles Darwin University (CDU) to help create a future free from human trafficking.
