Picking up the pieces after Covid

[Kwality]

Generation pandemic: How do we fix the damage coronavirus inflicted on kids? This man has a plan

For children living through a global crisis, separated from friends and trying to learn over the internet, the past 18 months have had a profound effect on their wellbeing. Now they must try to make up for lost time.

www.abc.net.au

Key points:

• Disadvantaged UK students lost up to three months of learning during the pandemic
• Kids from higher income households were only behind by two weeks
• The pandemic also had profound impacts on mental health and wellbeing of young people Errol Comrie is determined the pandemic will not stop any of his students from sitting exams and "getting a chance in life," but it all relies on them passing another test they cannot study for.

Errol Comrie is determined the pandemic will not stop any of his students from sitting exams and "getting a chance in life," but it all relies on them passing another test they cannot study for.

How many kids will slip through the cracks in Australia?

 

[Kwality]

WA mining salaries soar higher than last boom as skills crunch hits

Tradies’ wages are up 12 to 15 per cent while mining graduates are earning as much as $110,000 in WA, where the skills shortage is biting hard.

www.watoday.com.au

BOOM TIME for some:
Mining wages in Western Australia have increased as much as 27 per cent for some professions in the past 18 months as companies fight for workers from a limited talent pool thanks to closed international and domestic borders and a bevy of projects.
Such is the demand and competition for workers that university graduates have received offers as high as $160,000 a year.

One WA university student was offered about $160,000 to take a graduate position with a mining company but turned it down.


Its not only the time thats different about WA.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

WA mining salaries soar higher than last boom as skills crunch hits

Tradies’ wages are up 12 to 15 per cent while mining graduates are earning as much as $110,000 in WA, where the skills shortage is biting hard.

www.watoday.com.au

BOOM TIME for some:
Mining wages in Western Australia have increased as much as 27 per cent for some professions in the past 18 months as companies fight for workers from a limited talent pool thanks to closed international and domestic borders and a bevy of projects.
Such is the demand and competition for workers that university graduates have received offers as high as $160,000 a year.

One WA university student was offered about $160,000 to take a graduate position with a mining company but turned it down.


Its not only the time thats different about WA.

Mandatory jabs now too. I have no doubt some will walk away, that will put even more of a squeeze on but also create opportunities for others.

I've really hated my two secondary school kids (year 8/9 and year 10/11) spending pretty much 50% of the past two years at home, learning on line.