Education Minister Jason Clare yesterday released the hotly anticipated number of international students the tertiary education sector will be able to enrol in 2025, cutting current enrolments by 20,000 places. The minister announced his government would set international student commencements ...
More »La Trobe closes research-to-practice teaching gap
Students at La Trobe University's school of education will attend webinars that will teach them the 'science of learning' amid mandatory changes to universities' initial teacher coursework. The partnership with Think Forward Educators, an education community that champions evidence-based learning ...
More »La Trobe research aims to make Australia a world leader in medicinal agricultural production
New research in protected cropping using medicinal cannabis by La Trobe University is aiming to develop Australia’s agricultural industry and establish an Australian supply chain for medicinal cannabis. The project recently received $5m in funding from the Australian Government’s Regional ...
More »La Trobe’s unique Nexus teaching program celebrates its first graduates – podcast
In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers. In their first year, students work part-time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities and professional ...
More »La Trobe first Australian uni to mandate vaccines for staff, students
La Trobe university will become the first Australian university to mandate vaccination against COVID-19 for all staff and students. Vice chancellor John Dewar announced a two-staged approach to safely reopening its campuses later this year once the nation hits vaccine ...
More »Turnbull, Rudd and the ‘problem’ with the China-Australia relationship
It’s unequivocally our most important yet problematic relationship we share with another country. And on Wednesday, former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull recommended the coalition government dampen the domestic political rhetoric against China that has been building ...
More »How ‘ghost students’ fare in future studies
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 ...
More »La Trobe University reveals 2021 financial forecast
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 ...
More »‘Rapid’ research projects will ensure COVID-19 doesn’t compromise our health system
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 ...
More »La Trobe ‘not going broke’ as unis face $16b shortfall
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 ...
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