The defence force needs a lot of highly educated staff. To achieve this recruitment target, they offer undergraduate schemes where students can apply to join the forces and receive funding for the remainder of their degree for a return service commitment upon graduation.
The Gap Year usually follows secondary school year 12 graduation or is a break in the first few years of University. The challenge this presents is that you have to look for relatively low-skilled jobs in industries that are not looking for long-term employees as a criterion for employment. A paid gap year is possible.
Do you like kids, want to travel abroad and maybe even do some foreign language training. Then you might want to consider an au pair Gap Year.
There are many options available if you want to consider a Gap Year. You can volunteer in Australia and Overseas.
Try a Gap Year position in the agriculture business sector. While much work on farms, vineyards, and with livestock is seasonal, there are also longer-term options available in retail and various support and customer service positions for unskilled labour.
Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who have completed year 12 can apply to join. You will not need an ATAR to apply for the gap year.
Learn more about the tertiary admissions process here and find all the admissions portals.
We all want good teachers for our children but how do you recognise one. Data from progressive PISA studies keep telling us that Australia lags behind in academic achievement. In truth, Australia has not dropped in the PISA data but other countries have powered ahead of us. What do they do better than us?
A main issue with the Gonski funding will be how the SES is calculated and applied. Being a very blunt tool based on postcodes, it will be useful to know how it will be applied to the many schools in poor areas that charge high and very high fees and have huge assets such as Geelong Grammar located in Corio, Victoria. Clearly, not all people in a poor postcode are poor.
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We hear about “Kids before politics” when there is so much horse-trading and meaning-less mud-slinging going on, it is hard to say whether we have ended up with a donkey or a stallion in last night’s passing into law of the so-called Gonski2.0 funding.
Society has changed so is this remnant from colonial days still serving us well? Elsewhere in society today, you find sex segregation only in ladies’ gyms and gentlemen’s clubs.
Child poverty is one of the great challenges of developed, industrialised countries today. How can we ensure the best opportunities for poor children to grow up and be better off than their parents? Professor of Economics at Stanford University, Ray Chetty, made a presentation in the University of Oslo Aula on the 24 October 2016. This is a summary of the presentation. Link to the full presentation below this article.
