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Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria Pivotal decisions loom large for high school graduates and those with responsibility over them. The trajectory has been a fairly straightforward line until now – learning and more learning. Having completed high school, will the journey now lead directly to university? If so, what field of study? Will it be [...]
Peter Wilson, Australian Catholic University We’re all time-poor, so multi-tasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails while watching TV, make shopping lists in meetings and listen to podcasts when doing the dishes. We attempt to split our attention countless times a day when juggling both mundane and important tasks. [...]
Kristina Sincock, University of Newcastle; Felicia Jaremus, University of Newcastle, and Sally Patfield, University of Newcastle Australian school students feel immense pressure to go to university, often at the exclusion of all other pathways, which can lead to devastating mental health effects. That’s among the headline findings of our decade-long program of research on the [...]
Lucas Walsh, Monash University New research released today by The Smith Family shows how leaving school can be a difficult and complex time for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. It also shows how COVID has made this more difficult and complex. The new report includes a survey of more than 1,000 young people who were [...]
Lise Ludwig Mogensen, Western Sydney University Leaving school and figuring out what’s next is challenging for young people. For those with disability, it is even harder. It is often a time when supports are withdrawn as they leave the heavily structured school environment. We asked young people with intellectual disability about their experiences of transitioning [...]
Lucas Walsh, Monash University and Joanne Gleeson, Monash University As we pass the half way mark in term 3, many students in Year 12 will be thinking more and more about their future. Universities and TAFEs are having open days and no doubt, teachers, friends and family will be asking, “what are you going to [...]
After an AU$1.1 billion blowout to Victoria’s ‘broken’ WorkCover scheme, the State Government is considering narrowing coverage of mental health claims which are typically more expensive and take longer to resolve than physical health claims. However, rather than restrict mental health claims – which would be discriminatory and most likely just transfer those costs [...]
Catherine de Fontenay, University of Melbourne Our memories of the job market prior to COVID have become rosier: the last decade was a period of fairly low unemployment, even if wage growth was less than stellar. But that perspective may not be shared by people under 35. For that age group, the past decade has [...]
Being unemployed tends to be bad for your mental heath. We know this from long-term studies which show that people’s mental health often deteriorates when they become unemployed and can improve when they get a new job. It can be a vicious circle, since people with mental health difficulties can also struggle to get hired. [...]
Generation Next ‘s first Student and Youth Wellbeing Program of 2019 was a huge success. The beautiful creative confines of the Casula Powerhouse Performing Arts Centre provided a backdrop for a day of wellbeing education. It wasn’t just the excellent students from local schools that got to participate, but also more than ten thousand teens [...]
