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A teaching degree. How to apply for 2018 entry, Victoria.
If you or your son/daughter hopes to apply for 2018 entry into a teaching degree course, in Victoria, there are some really important changes to be aware of. Changes to teaching degree applications Year 12s and most no-year 12 applicants for tertiary courses in Victoria will apply through VTAC. Applications for this have just opened. […]
What are STEM subjects and Soft Skills?
What are STEM subjects and Soft skills? These are the buzz words being used in careers. Everyone is talking about STEM subjects and soft skills, etc – the trouble is, do we know what these are and why they are related? Also, do we know how to communicate them to a prospective employer, or recruiter? […]
VTAC applications for 2018
I attended a VTAC applications for 2018 Briefing last week. There are quite a few changes this year, so there was a lot to take in! Changes I posted a blog about the changes earlier in the year, as I heard Greg Craven, member of the Federal Government Higher Education Standards Panel, speak on the […]
Online Career Coaching
Online career coaching can work very well with most people in the technological age, as we do so much of our communication, learning and training online. Young students at school and in higher education settings can listen to lectures online, and in my own personal development there are an increasing number of sessions carried out […]
Career coaching in schools. What can parents expect?
Career coaching in schools. What can parents expect? A report released by researchers, McCrindle, on behalf of the Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA), provides useful information for parents about the career coaching within schools, the hours that coaches are employed and what else is offered by their career department. The report also indicates: the […]
Should you accept an internship?
I have been asked by parents and students, “should you accept an internship?” many times over the past few years. Internships are being used as training grounds by many organisations, and many young adults and their parents are concerned about the fairness of these schemes. The reality is that internships are a fact of working […]
Unemployment is humiliating. Parents fear their children missing out on jobs.
Unemployment and underemployment is humiliating in a consumer society. These were the wise words of Zigmunt Bauman. Bauman wrote of our fear of losing a step on the ladder to middle-class, and it is fair to say that many parents are in real fear for their children because of Foundation for Young Australians statistics on […]
Year 12 students apply through VTAC for tertiary courses
Year 12 students in Victoria will soon be able to apply through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) for tertiary places in up to 8 courses. It is a period when they are also really busy completing SACs and so semester 2 in year 12 can be really busy and maybe a little stressful for […]
Parents worry their kids will be worse off than they are.
Are you one of the 7 in 10 parents who worries that their kids will be worse off than they are? That’s 70% of you! According to journalist Eryk Bagshaw, “we’re a miserable lot” in Australia. More pessimistic than many other nationalities, with “negative sentiment (surging) by 16% in the past 4 years”.(Bagshaw, 2017, The […]