The university offers a course-credit for the times

La Trobe U is offering 15-credit points to students who can demonstrate what they accomplished and learned as workers/volunteers in “medical professions, government agencies, or community-based welfare organisations” during the present COVID-19 crisis.

To qualify students must have completed 100 hours. It’s available to everybody enrolled in a UG/PG course. They will need to demonstrate how working developed literacy/comms/problem solving skills.

In late 2019, La Trobe U created the DVC Students portfolio, combing student support and administration (Jessica Vanderlelie is in the chair, below)

Planning for the new team started early this year and a draft structure is now out for consultation, until July 31. Implementation is expected to start on August 10. The university states the process is separate to the COVID-19 savings agreement staff have agreed to, but it will, “avoid compulsory redundancies where we can.”