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Connecting Schools to Work – ABC Radio National interview relating to a report on The Partnership Broker Program. Interviews with Martin Dwyer of Yamaha Motors Australia, Jeanette Gentle Principal, Sandgate District State High School Brisbane and Toni Wren Employment and social policy consultant.
Listen at: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/connecting-schools-to-work/5346436
Successful youth unemployment service facing axe as government stays silent on funding – Sydney Morning Herald online report April 8, 2014
Government preparing to cut youth services – April 11, 2014
Education Ministers from across the country will be in Canberra today for the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC) meeting – the last opportunity before the Budget for the Abbott Government to continue funding for vital services that help young Australians complete year 12 and get jobs.
Read more: http://kateellis.com.au/newsroom/964/
Youth employment partnership program faces the axe – Bay Post, Ulladulla NSW April 11, 2014
The program brokers agreements between employers, charities and schools to direct young people at risk of long-term unemployment into work, education, training and work experience.
Read more: Bay Post Ulladulla NSW 11 04 14
From the Editor’s desk – Bay Post, Ulladulla NSW April 11, 2014
Programs aimed at giving our students practical workplace skills and useable industry qualifications are just what the shire needs. It teaches our students the value of hard work, it gives them on-the-job experience and shows employers the talent of our future workforce. Let’s hope the federal government continues the program, for the sake of our youth.
Read more: Bay Post Ulladulla NSW 2 11 04 14
Partnership Broker Program benefits Indigenous communities – ABC Radio Darwin April 11, 2014
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BUSINESS NEEDS INCENTIVES TO HELP OUR YOUTH
BUSINESSES need more incentives to put on young Australian workers over foreigners, in the same way
the Federal Budget has secured incentives for employers to hire older workers.
“Some young people have a greater capacity to enter the workforce than others,’’
Read more: Westside news 28.05.14
A nation of two halves: How cuts have closed door
Australia is rapidly becoming a nation of two halves. In many respects it already is. In pockets of the country, entrenched joblessness and disadvantage have become the norm. In those same communities the gap in the educational performance between young people and their better-off peers is large, growing larger. And as they
reach their teens, children in communities with high levels of early school leaving and unemployment often lack the networks crucial in establishing a pathway to a job.
Read more: SMH; Qld Times; 29.05.14
Tony Abbott is being urged to back up his professed support for “innovative” links between schools and businesses by rescuing a partnership program whose funding is about to expire.
The prime minister said it was “terrific” to see a major business involved in a hands-on way, noting that many young people ended school not knowing what career they would pursue and businesses complained they could not find workers.
“What I am doing is, I guess, exposing myself to what is being done creatively and innovatively here in the United States so that it can inform the kind of policy that we will be bringing forward as part of our competitiveness statement in a month or so time,” he said.
Labor’s education spokeswoman, Kate Ellis, accused Abbott of inconsistency: “This is the same prime minister who has just cut the Partnership Brokers program, which was successfully joining industry and schools right here in Australia.”
Read more: Abbott urged to rescue school
Improving youth employment outcomes an important job – Courier Mail Sept 11, 2014
So important was the Partnership Brokers program across Howard, Gillard and Rudd governments that heavy-hitting companies such as NAB, Qantas and Woolworths were on board.
The Partnership Brokers program will be dead by year’s end – and we will head down a path deemed dumbheaded
in the light of the evidence.
Read more: Courier Mail JFC column Anthony Mann PB Thurs 11 Sept