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Compact with Young Australians: New Education and Training Requirements for 15 to 24 year olds
Early school leavers and young people without Year 12 or equivalent qualifications are particularly vulnerable to the labour market effects of an economic downturn.
On 30 April 2009 the Australian, State and Territory Governments, through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), agreed to a Compact with Young Australians to increase young people's engagement with education and training pathways. This joint action will ensure that as the economy recovers from the global recession, young Australians will have the skills required to realise their potential.
The Compact with Young Australians focuses on the importance of education and training for young people by supporting young people to gain skills and knowledge through stronger engagement in education, training and employment. Under the Compact:
- all young people will be required to complete Year 10 through a National Youth Participation Requirement and then to be in full time education, training or employment until the age of 17
- 15 to 24 year olds will have access to an education or training entitlement
- changed conditions to Youth Allowance (Other) and Family Tax Benefit (Part A) for young people aged under 21 without Year 12 or an equivalent qualification, making education and training a precondition for income support.
For more details, visit:
Compact for Young Australians
Upgrade your career development skills and qualifications: Certificate IV materials now launched online
Australia's first Certificate IV in Career Development was finalised late last year and is being offiered by RTOs across the country.
Work on the learning guides to support sixteen specified units of the Certificate IV began in October 2007. A team of Australia's leading career development experts selected nine elective subjects, clustered the seven compulsory units, and has monitored the writing of a total of seven guides. The Certificate IV learning guides are now available as free downloads from
www.career.edu.au. A limited number of CD-ROMs of the guides will also be available while stocks last.
The
Certificate IV in Career Development has been included in the
Productivity Places Program (PPP), which provides new training places in industries experiencing skills shortages.
Support materials for the fore-runner of the Certificate IV, Australian Career Development Studies (ACDS), will continue to be freely available from the website. Visit
www.career.edu.au for more information and to download the learning guides.
Finding Your Passion
In an edited extract of a speech in The Australian, July 29 2008, Condoleezza Rice, the first female secretary of state of the US, has some succinct career advice. She advises students at Perth's Mercedes College to find their passon, to figure out what they really love to do and then to do it well. Her advice is to explore everything before them and to reject limits imposed on particular groups.
'It doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you are going.'
Read more at
The Australian
2009 myfuture Student Video Competition
The 2009 myfuture Student Video Competition has closed.
Click here to find out more about the myfuture Student Video Competition.
New Parent Articles
Are you an Assister? Then why not check out our new
Parent Articles section! Within our new Assist Others section of myfuture you will find some great new career ideas to research and explore. Our new
Career Development Today,
Support Your Child and
Activities tabs contain a wealth of information for those who are helping a friend, child or family member to explore or choose a new career path.
The Revised Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners: Ensuring Quality of Career Development Practice and Services
The Revised Professional Standards of Australian Career Development Practitioners (2007) will provide Australians with assurance that career development services provided by CICA members are supported by published ethical and professional standards and fully implemented by 2012. A complete pdf version of the document, supporting CICA Policy and Procedure Statements on Professional Qualifications and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are now available on the CICA website at
www.cica.org.auThe main change to be found in the revised standards 2007 booklet is in Section 4: Entry level qualifications, where the original four categories concerning qualifications of practitioners have been consolidated into two - Professional and Associate.