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Who pays for youth disengagement and unemployment? A case for smarter thinking and for investment
Background: In March 2015 a Working Group was established by Andrew Neophytou (CEO, Inner Eastern Local Learning & Employment Network) on behalf of the Inner Metro Youth and Community Partnership (IMCYP).
This Working Group was formed to discuss and consider actions around youth transitions and pathways, as a response to worrying levels of youth disengagement and unemployment, whether viewed from a regional, state or national perspective.
Part of the impetus behind the Groupâs formation was concern for the wellbeing of young people (largely but not exclusively those aged 15 and over) who were at risk of disengaging from education, or were already disengaged.
Like the IMYCP, e2e has these aims:
Advocacy and strategic input and advice to government about children and young people, and the organisations that support them
Sharing information and research around transitions and pathways
Building relationships with key stakeholders to develop a cross-sectoral response to address issues relating to transitions and pathways
Identifying potential pathways and referral options for young people that are most at risk
Providing best-practice examples / models for work and professional development.
A dozen stakeholder organisations / bodies have embraced these aims, and form the nucleus of the e2e Working Group:
Representatives from the following stakeholders form the nucleus of e2e:
Ardoch Youth Foundation
Capital City LLEN
City of Stonnington â Youth Services
Education Engagement Partnership (EEP)
Inner Melbourne VET Cluster (IMVC)
Melbourne City Mission (MCM) / SKYS
Melbourne Polytechnic
Prahran Community Learning Centre (PCLC)
SouthPort Uniting Care (SPUC)
Taskforce Community Agency
Victoria Police
As a first step, this Working Group agreed to develop a Discussion Paper. This Paper, completed in late July 2015, provides key reflections arising out of discussions the network members have had, and the reading weâve done.
This discussion paper is intended for a broad readership. It includes some introductory pages (eg background; a note about terms and definitions used; statistics; and five principles for smarter thinking and investment). The bulk of the paper covers eleven themes, each followed by a number of recommendations (averaging about six per section), which are aimed for a range of stakeholders, including government departments, peak bodies, and NFP organisations.
The eleven themes are: policy; consultation; funding / youth specific programs; workforce strategy â including professional learning; partnerships â including with industry; education disengagement; VCAL & VET; disabilities; âmiddle yearsâ; abuse and trauma; and diversion. 
Sexuality education : what is it?
This policy brief developed by the European Expert Group on Sexuality Education provides an overview of key issues in sexuality education. It focuses primarily on sexuality education in Europe and Central Asia but is also relevant to countries outside of these regions
#BadgedtoHire Final Report
Education Design Lab, through professional input and focus groups, developed eight badges that address the instruction of âsoft skillsâ to postsecondary students. With the emergence of alternative credentialing and badging, Education Design Lab wanted to contribute to the evidence of student confidence differences as attributed to completing the badge content as expressed on their resume, interview, and through application or example. Postsecondary institutions were engaged in this evaluation across the nation and allowed for three differing viewpoints on badge importance and expression â student, instruction, and employer
America's Next Manufacturing Workforce: Promising Practices in Education and Skills Building
The promising practices presented in this report demonstrate some of the most encouraging approaches for education and skill building of Americaâs new manufacturing workforce. These practices have been selected by a panel of experts from business, government, and education who serve on the MForesight Education and Workforce Development Working Group (EWD). This report summarizes a sampling of replicable and scalable promising practices being pursued to ensure that America builds an educated, skilled, and ready workforce. MForesight has not endorsed any particular product or method in presenting these promising practices, and is pleased to invite learning institutions, professional organizations, and manufacturers to submit descriptions of additional programs and initiatives serving similar purposes. In this way, MForesight hopes to build a community of practitioners and learners to help build an educated, skilled, and ready advanced manufacturing workforce. Concurrently, the EWD will continue its work to translate the key characteristics of these promising practices into policy and investment guidelines for government, industry, and educational enterprises that will support efforts to bring such practices to scale.National Science Foundation, Grant No. 1552534https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145154/1/WorkforceReport_Final.pd
The Australian Research Quality Framework: A live experiment in capturing the social, economic, environmental, and cultural returns of publicly funded research
Copyright @ 2008 Wiley Periodicals Inc. This is the accepted version of the following article: Donovan, C. (2008), The Australian Research Quality Framework: A live experiment in capturing the social, economic, environmental, and cultural returns of publicly funded research. New Directions for Evaluation, 2008: 47â60, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.260/abstract.The author regards development of Australia's ill-fated Research Quality Framework (RQF) as a âlive experimentâ in determining the most appropriate approach to evaluating the extra-academic returns, or âimpact,â of a nation's publicly funded research. The RQF was at the forefront of an international movement toward richer qualitative, contextual approaches that aimed to gauge the wider economic, social, environmental, and cultural benefits of research. Its construction and implementation sent mixed messages and created confusion about what impact is, and how it is best measured, to the extent that this bold live experiment did not come to fruition
Proposed Higher Education Funding Formula
Objectives for New Formula: â˘Transition to I&G funding based on outputs and outcomes ⢠Recognize enrollment growth and state priorities of: - Increasing the number of degrees and certificates awarded, - Meeting workforce needs, and - Closing the achievement gap by serving at-risk students ⢠Maintain a level of equity by sector and by institutions ⢠Simplify the formul
Developing a competency-based approach to facilitate teaching and learning of antimicrobial stewardship as part of environmental sustainability in higher education.
The environmental impact of the inappropriate use of antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is recognised by global organisations such as the World Health Organisation and the European Union. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is one strategy to promote appropriate use of antimicrobials to minimise AMR and is a priority for the NHS to ensure sustainable prescribing. To support this, national consensus-based competencies for teaching AMS to undergraduate healthcare professionals in the UK were launched in 2018. This presentation aims to describes our approach to tailor these AMS competencies to enable the development of a UK-wide competency framework specifically for student pharmacists
Equations in a consumer culture: mathematical images in advertising
Affect energises the learning and use of mathematics; a key influence comes from the images of mathematics available in society. We sought advertisements containing such âimagesâ (e.g. mathematical expressions, equations or graphs) in 1600 editions of UK newspapers, over two recent three-month periods. We found that 4.7% of editions included a âmathematicalâ advert, compared with 1.7% found in the pilot for 1994-2003. This supports the idea that mathematical images are being used more in advertising, paralleling the increase observed anecdotally in films. The incidence
varied from 8.2% among the âqualityâ papers, to 2.3% in mid-market, to 0.6% among
the âpopularsâ, suggesting a correlation with the social class of the readershi
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