By Mrs Alison Porter, Program Leader Student Pathways

Noteworthy items:

• A local business is offering an interested Year 10 or 11 student a position as a school-based trainee in tyre-fitting
• Reminder that Year 12 students interested in university in 2020 should be attending upcoming university open days
• Date claimer: Tertiary Studies Expo and Qld Work and Skills Expo in Brisbane, 20^th and 21^st of July.

General Construction White Card

Congratulations to the ten Year 10, 11 and 12 students that completed the General Construction White Card Course last week. The students spent the day learning about workplace health and safety in the building industry and all passed successfully at the end of the course.

Scholarships

Year 12 students considering further studies next year should take the time to apply for scholarships. Each year there are thousands of dollars available from a range of institutions to help students finance their studies. Often a reasonable portion of these funds go unclaimed as students don’t make application. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that students take the time to apply for any scholarships for which they may be eligible. A good starting place to find out what is available is to look on the website of the institution at which they would like to study. Another source of scholarship information is the Good Universities Guide at https://www.gooduniversitiesguide.com.au/scholarships

Rural and Agricultural Pathways

Students interested in rural and agricultural pathways and careers should consider attending the Ag Inspirations career awareness program currently on offer through AgForce Queensland. The program aims to raise awareness of the wide variety of career options within agriculture in areas such as biosecurity, agronomy, robotic farming, banking, purchasing, transport and logistics. It will involve students from Years 10-12 visiting multiple enterprises; spending about two hours at each location learning about the business and the skills required for the various tasks involved. The program will run over three days, 22^nd to 24^th of July. Information regarding this will be provided to students. Those students who may be interested, should let me know as soon as possible and register their interest as places in the program are limited.

Tertiary Admissions Centres

TACs are the state / territory organisations who process most of the applications for Universities (some Universities only take direct applications, and some offer the choice of applying directly or through a TAC).

They offer financial assistance to students with low socio-economic backgrounds, to help them get to Uni. Some TACs assess each student based on their original application and the information supplied, while others require students to make a separate application. Year 12 students considering university should read all about the requirements and how to apply, and make sure they get their applications in before the cut-off dates. For more information students should visit the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre website at www.qtac.edu.au.

For more careers information, tips and news please view with careers newsletter that is regularly emailed to Year 10, 11 and 12 students or view it online at www.acwcareers.com.