La Trobe University’s Rural Health School will open its doors to nursing undergraduates in the middle of the academic year for the first time in its history as it responds to workforce shortages that are gripping the nation.
The mid-year intake will allow up to 130 new students to begin nursing undergraduate degrees across all four of La Trobe’s regional campuses located in Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury-Wodonga and Mildura.
This forms part of La Trobe University’s Health Innovation Strategy, the University’s largest ever investment in the health sector, which aims to deliver an additional 4,800 equivalent full-time student load (EFSTL) by 2030 across key areas of nursing, psychology, dental and allied health in Melbourne and regional and rural Australia (taking the total EFSTL to around 13,000).
Applications for the first intake open this month, with the new students due to begin their undergraduate degrees in mid-July.
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