The Skills and Thrills Digital Students’ Showcase is an online video designed for high school students that provides information about Vocational Education and Training (VET) pathways and industry trends following the impacts of COVID-19, and provides an understanding of skills shortages and the future of work.
Utilising video, music and animation, the digital showcase presents career information in a unique, informative and engaging way.
Content on apprenticeships, traineeships and school based apprenticeships and traineeships (SBATs) feature throughout the showcase, along with personal stories of NSW Training Awards ambassadors who have chosen and excelled in vocational careers.
The half an hour video is available to all NSW high schools in Term 3 and will cover industry sectors posed to experience strong growth in NSW in the next five to 10 years.
Industries covered include Agriculture, Tourism, Hospital, Building and Construction, Healthcare and Community Service, Retail, STEM, Mining, and Transport and Logistics.
Educators, students and parents can access the video until September 17.
Created by SkillsOne in partnership with the NSW Government, the showcase assists students to connect their passion to a career pathway, highlights the breadth of opportunities available and connects students with resources to enable them to make informed career choices.
One such resource is Smart and Skilled, a reform of the NSW VET system.
Smart and Skilled provides subsidised funding for courses listed on the NSW Skills List.
The Skills List identified courses that help people get the skills they need to find a job.
The Skills and Thrills Showcase has been running successfully since 2016 and is designed to inspire and encourage students to think about the avenues they may not have considered before.
Over the past six years, over 50,000 students, educators and parents have gained a better understanding of the opportunities available through vocational education and training.
In a survey conducted following the 2020 digital showcase release, 91.77 percent of students said that they now understand more about industry trends, where the jobs are and about vocational education and training (VET) broadly, since watching the showcase.
“The Showcase was designed to dispel the myths surrounding vocational education and training and highlight the fact that a vocational qualification is absolutely equal to that of a university qualification.
“One is not better than another,” SkillsOne CEO, Brian Wexham, said.
Source:
Media Release, July 14
SkillsOne