Issues facing educators and students when it comes to career, course and institution choice.
Kids only put up their hands in high school for two reasons – to ask for the bathroom and to say ‘when am I ever going to need to use this’. UK schools are proving that career advice is not the domain of careers advisors but includes teachers. Teachers have the greatest in-school impact on…
Australians lack awareness about what technology jobs exist or how to get into them, according to a new roadmap to solving the sector’s hungry for more workers. An outstanding report prepared by The Tech Council of Australia , Accenture and Digital Skills Organisation titled Delivering 1.2 million jobs – “A roadmap to create a thriving…
Career satisfaction is not always determined by how much money you make. To be truly happy and do really well, you must like what you do. Young people need assistance in order to explore career possibilities and make important career decisions, as the world of work is more complex today than ever. They need far…
Industry 4.0 is changing to how products are manufactured and how goods and services are delivered. This will have significant impact on careers of the future, employment, learning and much more. For technology end users, Industry 4.0 (also known as the 4th industrial revolution) is a nearly invisible revolution. It doesn’t involve the construction of…
When it comes to planning out future career aspirations and dreams, we know that a critical point in young peoples’ lives is when subject selection and study pathway decisions are made at secondary school. So, what if they don’t receive the right advice or no advice at all? The findings of a recent NCSEHE-funded study…
Thousands of first-year university students drop out each year. While it has traditionally been the responsibility of high schools to help young people explore their further education options, universities also have a role to play in educating future students at the high school level in order to increase retention rates and ensure young people benefit from their university experience.
There’s evidence to support the proposition that people with the same personality type tend to cluster in similar occupations.
Robots may not take our jobs, but technology is changing what we do, which means employment is growing in the roles that are hardest to automate. Ground breaking research reveals how the human skills required to do these roles are hugely under-supplied.
Deloitte Insights, Australia, recently released a report “Why the future of work is human”. Robots won’t take our jobs, but technology is changing what we do, which means employment is growing in the roles that are hardest to automate.