Government backs La Trobe to deliver for regional communities

LATROBE UNIVERSITY, SHEPPARTON CAMPUS… Adding to the local skills base. Photo Steve Hutcheson
LATROBE UNIVERSITY, SHEPPARTON CAMPUS… Adding to the local skills base. Photo Steve Hutcheson

In a vote of confidence for La Trobe University’s commitment to regional communities, the University has received more Government-funded scholarships for students at its regional campuses than any other tertiary education provider in Australia, valued at over $1.5m per year.

La Trobe Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar welcomed today’s announcement by the Minister for Education Dan Tehan of funding for 94 Destination Australia scholarships across the University’s four regional campuses in Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury-Wodonga and Mildura.

Professor Dewar said the Destination Australia scholarships are just one of a suite of measures in which the Minister for Education is backing La Trobe to support regional communities in Victoria.

“In providing unprecedented scholarship funding to attract international and domestic students to our regional campuses, the Destination Australia scholarships will improve student numbers at our world class regional campuses and provide a welcome boost to our regional economies, including by helping to address skills shortages,” Professor Dewar said.

Nine Destination Australia scholarships were awarded to La Trobe’s Shepparton campus