Academic teaching staff have long witnessed students who one day walk out of class and never return. Now, researchers have investigated the outcomes of the ‘ghost student’ – one who remains enrolled in one or more of their units yet ...

La Trobe University came out of 2020 with better than expected finances but it now anticipates a revenue downturn of about $170 million compared with pre-COVID forecasts. In an update on the university’s finances sent to staff this week, vice-chancellor ...

Targeted grants from La Trobe, Medibank and Optus will help La Trobe University researchers investigate ways of rapidly improving community health and wellbeing as the spectre of COVID-19 hangs over our health system. Under the “Rapid Response Research” scheme, three ...

La Trobe University has hit back at claims that it’s “at risk of going broke in a matter of weeks”. Late last night, The Age published an article that reported the university was in dire straits – with cash reserves ...

The earliest known skull of the first human-like ancestors has been pieced together after researchers realised it wasn't a baboon. A team of international experts unearthed more than 150 pieces of the Homo erectus skull in the fossil-rich Drimolen cave ...

Pay an invoice. Take a phone call from school. Review a new blizzard of campaign creatives. Use the lunch break to phone Aunt Marge and buy your son a new shirt – the other one is ruined after a Heinz ...

Charles Sturt University will receive 63 scholarships valued at $2,838,000 as part of the Coalition Government’s Destination Australia program, conceived to encourage more students into regional areas of the country. More than $800,000 in scholarship funding has been earmarked for ...

Dr Sara James is a lecturer and cultural sociologist at La Trobe University in Melbourne and has completed research on the factors that influence students' degree and course choices. As James' work has found, one of the key factors influencing ...

Although many universities are no longer the elitist institutions they may have once been, there is little doubt that for some students – particularly those from disadvantaged or “equity” backgrounds – they still present a rigid “framework” that can detrimentally affect their ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be given an honorary doctorate from a Victorian university in front of thousands of fans. La Trobe University will recognise his efforts to support women and underprivileged children – along with his Bollywood achievements ...