By Australian Financial Review
Publication Date: 2026-06-01 23:59:00
“This means we need to transform ourselves as a university to put AI first, to integrate AI across our entire curriculum and to provide career-specific AI skills training to our graduates.”
AI integration in learning
La Trobe’s founding mission is to support people from disadvantaged backgrounds – underserved learners, first-borns and learners of low socio-economic status. To ensure their success, they must prepare for the future.
Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University, Professor Theo Farrell.
As Australia’s next generation of graduates faces the prospect of AI-driven job displacement, Farrell expects major workplace change as technology creates new careers.
“Throughout history we have seen disruptions in moments when technology drives major change, but there tends to be more jobs created than lost,” he says.
“The economy as a whole continues to grow as technology changes and it is our job to ensure our…
