Volume 3
Issue no. 4
September 2019
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News and Interesting Reading
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Victoria's youth peak body calls on everyone to support young people’s climate action
Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic), Victoria’s peak body for young people and the youth sector, calls on all Victorians to participate in the Global Climate Strike on Friday 20 September, to support young people in their drive for climate action.
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Living on Newstart: 'I don't eat every day. That saves some money I guess'
For those committed to alleviating poverty, raising Newstart is the urgent priority, and the easiest immediate fix.
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'We're in a bubble': Country kids left behind as education gap widens
More than half of all regional and rural schools have recorded a slump in their VCE results over the past decade, triggering concerns about a widening achievement gap between city and country students.
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How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
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Australian employment opportunities misaligned with job seekers' needs, study warns
Australia's labour market and the interests of employers and employees are seriously misaligned, according to a study by a leading jobs website.
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Skills crisis - Restoring confidence in training means rescuing TAFEs
It is tough picking the worst of Australia’s national policy disasters over the past decade – the handling of asylum seekers, the energy and climate wars, the botched NBN, the destruction of the car industry and the calamitous robodebt program leap readily to mind – but the gutting of vocational education courtesy of the multibillion-dollar VET FEE-HELP debacle is right up there.
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Helping kids who refuse to go to school
Four per cent of children do not want to go school most or all of the time. Sam was one such child. But when Sam stopped bringing a basketball to school, his mother knew things were looking up. Sam was attending a small, six-month program at mental health-focused Travancore School to help him attend a mainstream school regularly.
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Teachers warn they're overwhelmed by mental health problems in schools
Half of all state school teachers and staff in Victoria say they know of students in their school who have self-harmed in the past year, a survey has found. Teachers in Victoria also said they were struggling to support students experiencing a host of mental health problems including anxiety, anger, depression and drug and alcohol abuse.
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How Young Australians Feel About Their Careers and What it Means for Employers
As young Australians start entering the workforce, it’s important for businesses to attract and engage with them early on. After all, in today’s candidate-driven market, the younger generation have a variety of career options available to them—making it even more challenging for organisations to find and hire young talent.
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Victoria's TAFE course completion rate the worst in Australia
At least two out of three people who enrolled in a government-funded TAFE course in Victoria between 2015 and 2017 quit before gaining a qualification.
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Supporting senior secondary students on a pathway to the future
Education Council has commissioned a review of senior secondary pathways to examine how students can be supported to choose the best pathway into work, further education or training.
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Media Releases from the Victorian Minister for Education
More Support To Attract The Best Teacher To The Regions
Victoria’s best and brightest teachers will be offered incentives of up to $50,000 each to relocate to rural and regional schools, as part of $45.2 million investment by the Andrews Labor Government to bridge the divide between student results in the regions and the city.
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Free Lunches At School For Students Who Need Them
The Andrews Labor Government is making sure students can thrive at school by expanding the School Breakfast Clubs Program to offer lunches and school holiday supplies to children who need them.
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Massive Maintenance Blitz To Upgrade Ballarat Schools
Every single Victorian government school will get a share of $515 million in the single largest boost to school maintenance ever undertaken, thanks to an unprecedented investment by the Andrews Labor Government.
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Articles from "The Conversation"
One in 10 Aussie kids care for someone with a disability or drug dependence – they need help at school
Children who care for a family member with a disability, mental illness or dependence on alcohol or other drugs are less likely to complete, or do well in, secondary school compared with young people without caring responsibilities.
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If you have a low ATAR, you could earn more doing a VET course than a uni degree – if you’re a man
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in recent days that “TAFE is as good as university”, and in many cases leads to better pay. TAFE plays a vital role, but for most university students, a TAFE course is not going to increase their income. University graduates usually have higher rates of pay and employment than non-graduates.
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Should school uniforms be compulsory? We asked five experts
Whether schools should mandate a uniform is a controversial issue. Some believe wearing the same clothes smooths out inequality. Others see uniforms as authoritarian; believing them a symbol of repression, stifling freedom of thought and individuality.
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Better pay and more challenge: here’s how to get our top students to become teachers
Australia’s young high achievers are turning their backs on teaching. They want to make a difference in their careers, and they are interested in teaching, but when it comes to the crunch they choose professions with better pay and more challenge.
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Keep your job options open and don’t ditch science when choosing next year’s school subjects
Thousands of Year 10 students are in the process of choosing subjects for their final years of school and half will probably choose to ditch science.
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Three charts on: how much Australia spends on all levels of education
Australia spent A$111.8 billion on education in 2015, the most recent year for which the full dataset for all levels of education spending is available. A report from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) released today shows this was an increase of nearly 80% from 2000 spending.
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Upcoming Events, Conferences & Training
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The CYPFS Leader Accreditation Training
This training is a Highlands LLEN supported event and includes access to eight coaching modules with up to 80 hours of "turn key" Life, Career and School Performance coaching activities that teachers and youth workers can deliver straight into any careers pathways, TTW, VET, MIP's, FLO, counselling and support programs and more.
There are also complimentary places being offered for managers and senior leaders to come and experience the training and view CYPFS program first hand to assess the suitability of training their staff team in the future.
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What could your future job be?
Take the Future Job Quiz and find a role that could match your skills and interests!
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Find the right digital mental health resources for your needs.
If you’re trying to improve your own mental health, or support somebody else with mental health issues, Head to Health provides links to trusted Australian online and phone supports, resources and treatment options.
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Reports, Statistics and Surveys
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VET in Schools participation declines
Over a five year period, the number of school students undertaking vocational education and training (VET) as part of their Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (SSCE) has declined by 6.7% to 230 700, according to new data released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).
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Strengthening Skills: Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System
On 28 November 2018, the Prime Minister announced an independent review of Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) sector to examine ways to deliver skilled workers for a stronger economy.
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Opportunities
Rural Chances Vocational Scholarship
Youthrive Rural Chances offers young people the chance to support their vocational training with scholarships for TAFE study or apprenticeships. Rural Chances Scholarship applications are NOW OPEN and CLOSE 18th October 2019.
For more details visit www.ruralchances.org.au or email info@youthrivevic.org.au
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