Monday 18 December, 2023

As students across the country receive their ATAR results, a new report sheds light on emerging education approaches that could be key to better preparing young people for the future. 

Learning Creates Australia is closer to realising its vision of all young people successfully transitioning from school to further learning or work, following a multi-million commitment from the Paul Ramsay Foundation to enable the next three years of its work driving change in the Australian education landscape.

We’ve just kicked off Cycle 3 of our action research study, The Power of Recognising More, and next week in Hobart we are bringing together over 150 diverse people for our second We Are More gathering.  

We are always working to expand our community and share the knowledge we have gathered towards our collective ambition. Read on to find out what We Are More is all about.

Tawana’s story explores a positive experience of schooling, but one that she didn’t feel like fully prepared her for work or further education with a lack of connection to community. She shares about learning in a regional town, family and societal expectations as a migrant, in and out of school learning experiences that weren’t recognised and the variety of pathways those have begun to unlock.

Gabriella’s story explores a new found sense of agency when migrating from the Philippines to Australia mid-way through secondary schooling but in contrast found ATAR and her tertiary pathways restricting and limited. Her story includes references to learning experiences outside of school, entrepreneurial skills - running her own business, TAFE framed as a second-rate option and the need to teach more practical things in school that have real world application.