The federal budget next week will include measures for student loan debt relief; as well as payments for those students undertaking compulsory work placements in the areas of social work, teaching, nursing and midwifery.
Preparing for her work placement later this year, second-year nursing student ] Olivia Stokes had been looking at the requirement with dread."As a student going on placement full-time, you don't get to work much at all - or at all. It's a real stress. Yeah, it just makes everything so difficult because then you're like: oh, what if I need to work on the weekend - and then and it's a full eight hour days.
It is expected to benefit around 68,000 higher education students; and 5,000 vocational education and training students. 88 per cent of Australia's nurses are female, with similar gender ratios in the other caring professions."And I guess another observation is about 60 per cent of students at uni are women, and these are such important jobs. They're jobs where not everybody who starts the degree finishes it. Only one in two people who started teaching degree finish it. Part of the reason for that is the course. I'm reforming the course.
"I said on election night I wanted to widen the doors of opportunity. That's what Labor governments do; and that's what my government is doing. We should also make sure that people who want to do a course, want become a teacher, want to become a nurse, don't go: oh, I'd really like to do that, but I just can't afford to do so. And that's why this measure is practical and so important.
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