Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
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Youth employment programmes need to be built around real jobs, capable institutions and the young people they are meant to serve.
Polytechnic universities try to incorporate skills-based learning into education.
Colleges and universities share similar financial challenges.
Starmer’s vision for a changed education sector attempts to use the same measures to address two separate problems.
As labour shortages deepen across sectors, the disconnect between formal education and real-world job requirements is becoming harder to ignore.
Government policy has turned these qualifications into something much more suitable for adults already underway in a career.
Low rates of pay, often combined with buying their own equipment, can leave apprentices with no choice but to do cash-in-hand work.
Vocational education and training is facing some big changes. The federal government is proposing a five-year National Skills Agreement with the states to start next year.
Ahead of the 2022 budget, the government is investing in male-dominated apprenticeships rather than women-dominated care roles. Has anything really changed in how we value the work of women?
Some in government and industry aim to fill Australia’s skills shortages with migration policies. But VET numbers are up, suggesting many Australians are re-skilling. We could encourage more of this.
Around 45% of secondary students do VET for employment reasons, while 30% do it for further study.
The pandemic has hit young people very hard. The long-term costs of having them neither studying nor working more than justify investment in a national program to help them enter the workforce.
There is a growing mismatch between what education and training provide and the skills needed in workplaces being reshaped by the digital economy. Advanced apprenticeships can help close the gap.
LSAY is one of the biggest and oldest surveys of its kind in the world. It follows young Australians from the age of 15 to 25 to find out what helps and hinders them along the way.
The Australian government’s JobTrainer programs provides A$1.5 billion in wage support for apprentices and trainees.
Reforms in 2014 were similarly aimed at making VET more responsive to industry needs and cutting red tape, all the while pulling funding from VET.
Increases in unemployment result in a decrease in apprentice numbers, as well as employers taking on fewer new apprentices. Australia can’t lose the workforce we might need for our recovery efforts.
For post-secondary students, work-integrated learning experiences offer opportunities to gain that first experience on the resumé while planning a transition from school to work.
Both major parties have promised more money to help boost apprenticeship numbers, including by providing incentives to employers. But history shows this isn’t the best way to spend public dollars.
Top contributors
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Senior Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Former Senior Lecturer/Program Director, masters program in human resources management, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow in Youth, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Honorary Fellow in Education Policy, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Professor of Finance, IE University
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Professor of Education and Political Economy, University of Bath
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Glasgow
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Director, Peter Noonan Policy Impact Program, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior lecturer - Education Studies, Bath Spa University
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Professor in the School of Economics, University of Surrey