India, May 24 -- As part of its focus on expanding what the University offers to regional students, our new strategy aims to grow enrolments in our on-campus, hybrid and online courses by four times the growth rate of the domestic student population in regional Victoria by 2030.

Achieving this goal will narrow the gap between metropolitan and regional higher education participation across our campus network by a third.

La Trobe's Chancellor, the Hon. John Brumby AO, said the new Regional Growth and Innovation Strategy 2030 would greatly improve higher education access as well as create a skilled workforce for regional Victoria's economic and social prosperity.

"Fewer than 20 per cent of regional, rural and remote Australians attend uni...