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Education growing as place for jobs

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Original article by Shane Wright
The West Australian – Page: 20 : 19-Sep-14

The Australian employment market is changing. In the three months to August 2014, for the first time there were more people employed in education and training than manufacturing. In Western Australia (WA), education surpassed manufacturing nearly three years before. In WA, there were fewer than 96,000 people directly employed in mining, the lowest number since mid-2011. There were 152,000 retail workers, 150,000 healthcare workers and over 34,000 in the real estate sector

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AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS, COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES LIMITED, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA

Study ‘not up to the job’ of readying Aussies for work

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Original article by Natasha Bita
The Australian – Page: 5 : 8-Sep-14

Think Education Group has issued the results of new polling commissioned from Pureprofile. They show that among 18-to-35-year-olds fewer than two thirds believe that the education they received has given them the skills they need in their jobs. Among vocational training graduates the ratio is even lower, at just 57%. Think CEO Linda Brown says more needs to be done to eliminate the gap between the education system and the "real world". Another finding is that men tend to choose their field of study based on the salary they want to earn, while women "follow their passion"

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THINK: EDUCATION GROUP PTY LTD, PUREPROFILE PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN SKILLS QUALITY AUTHORITY, AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNION