|
International |
|
|
News and Events
Academic Excellence Scholarships now available
Eligibility: Selection Criteria: Value: How to Apply: Please visit the Academic Excellence Scholarships page to dowload the relevant application forms.
New Postgraduate Courses in 2008La Trobe University is offering a range of new postgraduate courses in 2008, including several “double masters” degrees specially designed to meet industry’s demand for a solid mix of technical and business skills. The new courses include: Master of Information Technology / Master of Business Administration; Our new Masters in Information & Communication Technology has been carefully designed for graduates with an information technology, computer science, computer engineering or electronics communication engineering background, to provide the opportunity to obtain advanced knowledge and skills in the development and application of information and communication technologies in a postgraduate setting. In the specialist Health Sciences field, La Trobe is now offering a 6 month Graduate Certificate in Oral Health. This course is a response to the growing demand by overseas-trained dentists, who are not registrable in Australia, to develop skills in a simulated and clinical environment. Candidates will use this skill development program as a process of re-training before they undertake the registration examination process of the Australian Dental Council (ADC) to allow them to practice in Australia. Our new Master of Education (Applied Learning) is designed to develop expertise and leadership capacities using applied learning principles and allows graduates to design, implement and evaluate curricula across diverse educational contexts and sectors. For more information, visit: www.latrobe.edu.au/international/courses/ 2008 Study Abroad Scholarship for One German StudentExclusive GOstralia! Full Tuition Study Abroad Scholarship at La Trobe University • 100% tuition fee waiver (A$7,750) for one German student entering the La Trobe University Study Abroad program commencing Semester 2, 2008 • Selection criteria: Academic merit and motivational letter (testimonial) For more information on how to apply please contact GOstralia! at info@gostralia.de
The La Trobe Global Lounge - Now OpenLa Trobe International is very excited about opening our new Student Exchange drop in office in the Agora. The 'Lounge' is an information hub for La Trobe's incoming and outgoing exchange students. It's a place where students can meet with International Exchange Advisors, link up with other students, or find more information about the many destinations for a semester Exchange! 
OPEN: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY
La Trobe and Microsoft launch new centre for ICT innovationLa Trobe University and Microsoft have announced the establishment of Australia's first campus-based Microsoft Centre, located at the University's R&D Park. It is the first of three centres to be set up in partnership between the two organisations. The new centre will provide cutting edge hardware and software and will lower infrastructure barriers to ensure students, academics and small to medium companies have access to start-up facilities for research and product development. La Trobe University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson, said the University was extremely pleased that its expertise and reputation for software research, development and information technology had attracted such important infrastructure to Victoria. "The facilities and activities in the centre will focus on strategic projects, closely aligned to the Microsoft platform, encouraging the innovative abilities of our students and furthering their entrepreneurial skills and career prospects." Read more... Centre for Technology Infusion Banking Made EasyIf you're coming to study at La Trobe soon, or have just arrived, you should check out our new page about banking options - it has helpful information and tips about banking in Australia. Did you know that you can even open a bank account here in Australia before you leave home? You can open a student account with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, enabling you to transfer funds to Australia before you arrive!
$30m medical Co-operative Research Centre announcedLa Trobe University, in association with major Australian research bodies, clinical institutions and international pharmaceutical companies, has been successful in obtaining funding for a new $30m Federal Government medical Co-operative Research Centre (CRC). The Centre will develop diagnostic and therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. A grant of $30.6 million over seven years was provided to establish the CRC for Biomarker Translation which will be headquartered at the La Trobe University Research and Development Park on the main Melbourne campus at Bundoora. The therapies and tests developed by the CRC are expected to transform the management of autoimmune diseases and cancer and make Australia a competitive force in the rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar antibody therapeutic market. La Trobe pioneers external training for Asian orthotics and prosthetics industryLa Trobe University’s National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics is collaborating with a Cambodian-based educational institute to train highly-skilled, regionally-based specialists and educators in prosthetics and orthotics. Nine graduates of the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics and the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetics and Orthotics are studying at La Trobe University’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora until the end of February, as part of an 18-month course designed to upgrade their qualifications. On return to Cambodia they will complete the rest of their course externally before taking up senior clinical, management or educator positions in Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Seven of the students are graduates of the Cambodian school – including five Cambodians, one Sri Lankan, and one Laotian – and two are Pakistani graduates of the Pakistani Institute, whose work is also supported by the Cambodian institute. La Trobe lecturer in Human Biosciences, Wes Pryor, said the students – who had been working in the field of prosthetics and orthotics for at least three years – are undertaking an18-month five-semester upgrading course equivalent to 50 per cent of the La Trobe degree course. After completing the course, in combination with their advanced standing from previous studies and their work experience, this first cohort of external P&O students will be awarded the La Trobe degree, Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics. Mr Pryor said many of the Cambodian specialists will be called to fit or alter prostheses to help people injured by land mines, a legacy of the Pol Pot era. They will also be in demand across the region to assist people injured by traffic accidents, polio, stroke, and other musculoskeletal conditions. Mr Pryor said La Trobe University developed the course in response to a request from the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, which is being developed as a Centre of Excellence in the region under the sponsorship of the UK-based charity, the Cambodia Trust. The school trains prosthetists and orthotists from South East Asia and beyond. Students come from 14 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, East Timor, Georgia, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. A second cohort of students from the Cambodian School is expected to enroll at La Trobe in 2008. La Trobe graduate appointed as Australia's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.La Trobe economics graduate, Dr Geoff Raby, has been appointed as Australia's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Dr Raby will also have non-resident accreditation to Mongolia. Between 1986 and 1991 Dr Raby served in Beijing as head of the Embassy's Economic Section. He has held a number of senior positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation, Geneva (1998-2001) and First Assistant Secretary, Trade Negotiations Division (1995-1998). Dr Raby was head of the Trade Policy Issues Division of the OECD, Paris (1993 and 1995). Born in Melbourne, Australia, in September 1953, Dr Raby was senior tutor in economics at La Trobe University before joining the Commonwealth Public Service. He has 3 degrees from La Trobe University - BEc (Hons) 1977, MEc 1981 and PhD 1991. For more information, please view: www.latrobe.edu.au/alumni/profiles/raby.html  Content Approved by: Director, La Trobe InternationalPage maintained by: Communications Coordinator (Web) Last Updated: 18 August, 2008 |