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ACER UPDATE Senior secondary school students' perceptions of the world of work A new report conducted by ACER for the Smith Family into the perceptions of work held by senior secondary school students provides a valuable insight into the current skills shortage and youth unemployment rate by uncovering a significant mismatch between student career aspirations and the reality of the labour market. The survey of 3,018 year 10, 11 and 12 students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds has found that a majority of students are identifying preferred career paths based on their skills and personal interests with little to no understanding of the availability of these jobs in the current labour market. Most (80%) expect to get the job they would most like at age 25 and few have considered the possibility of compromise should employment in their chosen field be hard to come by. The study, What do students know about work? funded by the AMP Foundation also found that a quarter of students were planning insufficient education for their preferred job. Visit the Smith Family website to read more Download the report (PDF: 2.9MB) Literature review on accreditation of teacher education ACER's Teaching and Leadership research program has been awarded a contract with the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership (NIQTSL) to prepare a literature review and issues paper on the development of a national system for the accreditation of teacher education. It is the third project to be undertaken by ACER for NIQTSL. The project is to be completed in December 2005. CEET Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) will be held in Melbourne on Friday 28 October. The conference theme will be "The New Federalism in Australian Education and Training". Questions to be addressed at the conference include Where are the good job prospects? How do we measure skills shortages? Are high-skill jobs moving off-shore? What is happening in migration? What is happening to participation in work by youth and older persons? What are the responses in education and training? Further details are available from Monash University website. « Back to eNews
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Senior secondary school students' perceptions of the world of work

A new report conducted by ACER for the Smith Family into the perceptions of work held by senior secondary school students provides a valuable insight into the current skills shortage and youth unemployment rate by uncovering a significant mismatch between student career aspirations and the reality of the labour market. The survey of 3,018 year 10, 11 and 12 students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds has found that a majority of students are identifying preferred career paths based on their skills and personal interests with little to no understanding of the availability of these jobs in the current labour market. Most (80%) expect to get the job they would most like at age 25 and few have considered the possibility of compromise should employment in their chosen field be hard to come by. The study, What do students know about work? funded by the AMP Foundation also found that a quarter of students were planning insufficient education for their preferred job.

Visit the Smith Family website to read more

Download the report (PDF: 2.9MB)

Literature review on accreditation of teacher education

ACER's Teaching and Leadership research program has been awarded a contract with the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership (NIQTSL) to prepare a literature review and issues paper on the development of a national system for the accreditation of teacher education. It is the third project to be undertaken by ACER for NIQTSL. The project is to be completed in December 2005.

CEET Annual Conference

The Annual Conference of the Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) will be

held in Melbourne on Friday 28 October. The conference theme will be "The New Federalism in Australian Education and

Training". Questions to be addressed at the conference include

Where are the good job prospects?

How do we measure skills shortages?

Are high-skill jobs moving off-shore?

What is happening in migration?

What is happening to participation in work by youth and older persons?

What are the responses in education and training?

Further details are available from Monash University website.

ACER UPDATE

Senior secondary school students' perceptions of the world of work

Literature review on accreditation of teacher education

CEET Annual Conference