The document discusses ideas for providing students with real-life work experiences to better prepare them for careers. Some of the ideas presented include: having former students discuss their career experiences to give current students more realistic expectations; dismantling the traditional education system and giving industry control over education so students can learn skills directly from industry earlier; and creating classrooms within industry where teachers, students, and industry professionals can work together to provide relevant, hands-on learning experiences.

1. Problem statement
Find a way to provide students with experiences that
provide the additional skills obtained through real life
experiences that will ensure students are able to cope
with confidence, both work wise and personally.

2. IDEAS
1. More school work experience
2. Industry Expo event for
students
3. Ex student talking their
experiences
4. Buddy system at work
5. Buddy system in last year of
school with industry
6. Small cadetships for students
7. Begin the employment
process before the last year
and make the last year a
hybrid year
8. Allow student in first year
more time to get into groups
with other first years to
discuss
9. Allow secondary students the
ability to spend up to a month
in various jobs.
10. Students want to change the
world but this is not likely in
modern workplaces so set
realistic experiences for them

3. IDEAS
11. Psychologists to assist the
the changeover student to
employee requires a change
management process
12. Breakup the last years of
study by incorporating work
13. Make study part of the work
process
14. Create subjects that set up
students for what the
experience will be
15. Get companies to showcase
what first years do in their
companies.
16. Set up a monitored group to
get together and support
each other in their first year.
17. Conference allowing industry
and education to mix
18. Should industry buy into
schools
19. Industry allocate a
term/semester to student
gaining appropriate work
experience.
20. Industry sponsoring schools
to gain access to kids for
work/school experience

4. IDEAS
21. Pay students to learn
22. Employ students earlier
alternating related study to
work
23. Create classrooms with
industry
24. Merge schools and industry
25. Give education responsibility
to industry - no more schools
26. Alternate work and school
each year
27. Teach a change
management subject to
ensure student understand
expectations
28. Students needs more
experience
29. Get students into work earlier
30. Requirement for student to
have part time jobs as part of
curriculum
31. Move schooling to online and
require student to be on the
job earlier
32. Have a course that is
mandatory that just teaches
what to expect at work
33. More subject that teach work
practices

5. IDEAS
34. First work year is an
apprenticeship
35. School Subjects become
industry subjects
science=medicine etc
36. VCE (year/grade 12)
becomes career selection
year
37. Lunchtime career info
sessions for students
38. More graduate program's
about work expectations.
39. Entrepreneur programs at
school. fund kids to produce
products
40. Create subjects that provide
the necessary work entry-
level skills.
41. After school work classes
42. School holiday work
program's
43. Teacher immersion into
industry. To actually learn
what happens and pass onto
students
44. Video channels for student to
participate with industry

6. IDEAS
45. Use of Skype, YouTube to
blend school with industry
46. Get industry to give
projects to students in
schools and coach/guide
them through the project
47. Get industry to
create/design the subjects
that are relevant to them.
48. Have more career based
course/experiences
throughout
school/university
49. Get businesses to run
school based expos
50. Get parents to come in to
schools to share their work
experiences

7. My most practical idea.
Ex students talking their experiences
This is the simplest and most practical idea. By bringing ex
students ( from deferent industries) who are now in the
workforce back to the school to discuss what happened to
them, both good and bad, new students will have more
realistic expectations. They may also get ideas on things
they need to do to prepare for a working life and also not
have huge idealistic expectations of being able to change
the world in the first year of their working life ( even if I
hope they do).

8. My most disruptive idea
Give education responsibility to industry - no more schools.
This idea would be the most disruptive in that it would
basically mean dismantling the current education system
and recreating it with industry itself. Students would begin
working life earlier but be within a school which is within an
industry that will need their skill in the future. The uproar of
creating something like this between teachers, government,
teacher unions, students and the industries would be
immense but students would be seeing and mingling what
a working life looks like while studying.

9. My favourite idea
Create classrooms with industry
This is my favourite. Logistics may be difficult but actually getting
teachers and industry to join together to run relevant classes
within industry will bring students teachers and industry together.
The learning of students by watching what happens within
industry would be great for them. The learning of industry as to
what students are doing and how they are learning would be
great for them. I see this a win win from both sides and would
go a long way to guiding students on their transition from school
to degree to work.