How do we break down the walls between education + Industry 4.0?
With a bit of 2020 vision, it’s clear that Australia is going to take a long while to recalibrate after being rocked by the forces of an ongoing global pandemic, black swan economy, wide-scale education and market disruption and rising unemployment rates.
A Snapshot In Time: Australia’s Labour Market And COVID-19 - the first public report by the newly-formed National Skills Commission (NSC) - reveals the scale of the economic, business, industry and workforce skills challenges facing Australia as we try and push through the COVID-19 crisis. In particular, NSC data shows that young people have been significantly impacted by COVID-19, accounting for nearly 45 per cent of the total decline in employment in May 2020, despite comprising just 16 per cent of the population.
Scott Morrison has directly warned young Australians they face a tougher employment market than they did during Australia's 1990s recession, youth unemployment continues to rise and finding work is increasingly difficult for young people during the pandemic. On top of that, Australia is staring down the barrel of a looming national skills deficit predicted to hit 29 million by 2030, with a Deloitte report stating that more than 80% of the jobs created between now and 2030 will be for ‘knowledge workers’, and two-thirds of those jobs will rely on ‘soft’ or transferable enterprise skills.
However, for Australia to recover economically and build the engines of future jobs and industries, all young people need the opportunity to develop employability skills, industry access and high quality career education so they can make informed decisions about their future pathways in post-school VET, tertiary education or sustained employment.
So within this complex context, the big questions we’re asking right now are:
1. How do we bring industry insights into the classroom?
2. How can we best prepare today’s students for the jobs of the future?
3. What are the new suite of employability skills the labour force requires?
4. And how do recent new policy and funding allocations set new directions for post-school tertiary, VET and work integrated learning pathways?
Please join us for an interactive Q&A as we unpack these questions and more alongside a panel of education and industry experts from the David Gonski-backed Future Minds Accelerator.
Suitable for teacher professional development (PD / NESA). All welcome.
Interactive Panel: Breaking Down The Walls: Bringing Schools & Industry Together
Date: Thursday 30 July, 2020
Time: 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Cost: Tickets are free but numbers are limited.
Register: Registrations are essential via the below Eventbrite link. This event is near capacity so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/breaking-down-the-walls-bringing-schools-and-industry-together-tickets-110736760632
PANEL MEMBERS
Madeleine Grummet and Edwina Kolomanski
Cofounders Future Amp
FutureAmp is a best practice online career education platform that equips and upskills young people for the future of work. The proprietary platform features optimised UX/UI integrations, interactive future skills and career education e-resources, industry-backed virtual work experience and a global and local industry mentor video library.
Scott Millar
Founder BOP Industries
Bop Industries is a technology and education company on a mission to inspire the next generation of Digital Creators. By helping bring entrepreneurship, innovation and STEAM into the classroom, the BOP team are working to help inspire and empower Generation Z as they prepare for the ever-changing future of work.
Petra Trinke
Head of Learning Hampton Senior High School
Petra Trinke is a passionate Computer Science, STEM and Digital Technologies educator. She holds the position of Head of Technologies at Hampton Senior High School in Perth, WA. Petra is Vice President of the Educational Computing Association of WA. Petra was recently awarded a Women In Tech WA (WiTWA) Teach [+] 20 Award and she is a Microsoft Innovation Education Expert and Adobe Education Leader.
About the Future Minds Accelerator
The Future Minds Accelerator, a partnership between Rio Tinto, BlueChilli and Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been designed to support and inspire startups and the education ecosystem to tackle a 21st century challenge: How can we prepare Australia’s young people to thrive in the jobs of the future? Learn more.