A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged over an incident in which a student was stabbed at Curtin University last week.

At about 11pm on September 5, the 21-year-old victim left a building on the Bentley campus and walked towards Kent Street.

Police allege he was approached by the teenage boy, who attempted to steal his bag.

The man resisted and was punched and attacked with a knife, resulting in stab wounds to his arm and back.

It will be further alleged the teenage boy then stole the bag which contained a laptop computer and fled.

The student managed to stagger to the Karawara shops and called a friend, who phone police.

An ambulance was called to the shops and the man was taken to hospital with suspected life threatening internal injuries.

He remains in hospital.

The 14-year-old Bentley youth was charged with aggravated armed robbery and grievous bodily harm, and is expected to appear in Perth Children's Court today.