Allen Bryce

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Allen Bryce Angela Shaw Graham Flanagan
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An overview of TOOLS4WORK Support from school
to industry. What have we learnt.
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Our aim is to Promote our industries as a
worthwhile career choice and prepare students to
be work ready
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What we do
Marketing campaign website, advertising and PR
and over 100 careers related events seen by over
40,000 students and presented to over 2,000
education and industry stakeholders New
schools qualification developed including
learning, teaching assessment materials. Over
150 schools have signed up to deliver the
qualification in 2007. This should represent
approx 4,000 students taking the course
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What we do
Linking schools with industry, especially
supporting the Gateway initiative Scholarships
for pre-apprenticeship courses, helping students
transition from school and into an apprenticeship
Smart Force Mentoring program to help students
with their school work, help find work experience
opportunities, provide scholarships and
ultimately find a job leading to industry training
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Lessons Learned?

• One thing doesnt work
• The Burger King Kid have it your way!

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Lessons Learned?

• The real thing experience (not Cola!)
• Finish the Job

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The reality of university today

• 50 of graduates dont complete their degree
  within 3 years
• The average student debt is 18,726
• A typical salary for a new graduate is 35,000 -
  40,000

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Apprenticeships are working ...

• A newly qualified tradesperson typically earns
  35,000 - 60,000
• An apprentice will earn approximately 75,000
  during their apprenticeship
• An apprentice studies on the job, therefore has a
  3 year head start with work experience
  sometimes there is no shortcut to time!

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Challenges

• Should more consideration be placed on carving
  out pathways, based on learning (and other)
  preferences of students and industry and
  employment needs?
• Greater emphasis is placed on full time
  tertiary study
• Industry has to take part responsibility for
  this schools and parents cant push what they
  dont know!
• Industry training cannot make itself heard above
  the est. 50M - 100M spent on marketing by full
  time tertiary providers Careers Expos are an
  example of this

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Some grey sky thinking for the future i.e. Im
not sure Ive got it right!
Develop a campaign to highlight the value of all
forms of capability, intelligence and wisdom
Equity and diversity doesnt have to be a
paradox! Advocate a change with how schools are
measured to reflect how people learn and where
employment is now, and in the future Sometimes
theories around learning can evolve faster than
humans do!