A 2009 study (www.latrobe.edu.au/about/downloads/economic-impact-analysis.pdf) found that La Trobe’s regional campuses (located in Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Mildura and Shepparton) “employ 1337 people and cater for around 6120 students.
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"Once flow-on impacts are accounted for, the university and expenditure by students support up to 2939 jobs and contribute $282.7 million to gross regional product across the communities where the regional campuses operate”.
In Bendigo alone this amounted to students spending up to $76.3 million in the local economy per annum and, when university and student expenditure was combined, supported 2099 jobs in the local economy and a contribution of $201.4 million per annum to Bendigo's gross regional product.
What must these figures be in 2014 as La Trobe proposes to force up to five per cent of its Bendigo-based workforce into redundancy?
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