[Yr7-10it] ICT Careers - the current state of play

Tue Mar 6 14:16:10 EST 2007

Hi all,

Industry is so short of ICT professionals that a number of them (very
large companies) have joined with Monash Uni to offer $36,000
scholarships for the 3 year Bachelor of Business Information Systems
(Industry Based Learning)

They award about 50 of these scholarships per year, but the student
needs to get an ENTER score of about 89 to get into the course. To add
even more enticement if the student's ENTER score is above 97 the HECS
fees will be paid also. (Another $30,000 or so over 3 years)

For more info see http://tinyurl.com/ypghhs

Cheers
Ros

Roslyn Meadows | Information Technology | Bentleigh Secondary College |
meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au | ph 03 9579 1044 | mobile 0412 614
062

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Subject: RE: [Yr7-10it] ICT Careers - the current state of play

Hi Adrian,

 A fabulous presentation ! 
There was a travelling 12 stop road show last year instigated by
Multimedia Victoria with the impromatur of and funding support by the
relevant Minister to try to reinvigorate the status of IT as a career
choice. This was largely due to the serious skills shortage.
The more the masses know about the facts the more chance we have of
repositioning IT to its rightful place as a valid, lucrative, successful
career choice.

Best Wishes

Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034

>>> Therese.Keane at genazzano.vic.edu.au 03/05/07 08:35am >>>
Hello Adrian

Thank you very much for this resource. I intend to use it extensively to
highlight to the girls that ICT is a terrific career to enter into. At
the commencement of the school year, we were presented with statistics
of where the Class of 2006 went onto with regards to their tertiary
choices, and unfortunately I don't recall any students studying an IT
course. In sharp contrast, when I worked in boys schools, the boys would
choose an IT course even at TAFE level as a fall back plan...especially
if they did not get into the course of their choice!

Just as TV shows have made some careers irresistible such as CSI
(Forensics), Greys Anatomy (Medicine), LA Law (Lawyers) etc, perhaps we
need a TV show that will sex up ICT and students will flock to it, and
classrooms will be bursting with eager students wanting to do ICT
again!! Those were the good old days! I guess we can only dream!!

Regards
Therese

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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adrian Janson
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Subject: [Yr7-10it] ICT Careers - the current state of play

Hi everyone (and apologies for the cross posts)

I have just uploaded a presentation on ICT careers to the VITTA web site
- it is about 1.3MB in size.  Here is the link:

http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3D3140 

One of the things that I am passionate about VITTA 'doing better' is
helping promote ICT careers to students in Victoria and giving teachers
as much assistance as possible to get this done.  Earlier this year we
met with representatives of the Australian Computer Society in order to
find out some concrete things about the ICT industry in Victoria (and
indeed, Australia).  The information that we were able to obtain is
contained in this presentation and makes for very interesting reading!

We all know that there are opportunities in the ICT industry, but our
students are not getting the message.  We are fighting a number of
battles - students still think the ICT industry is reeling from the
'dot-com' crash, careers teachers and parents often give advice that
steers students away from ICT subject choices and the media is not
really aware of the needs of the industry (choosing instead to focus
more 'news worthy' topics such as the out-sourcing to foreign
countries).

VITTA has a number of things planned to promote ICT careers to students.
This presentation is one of the first resources we will be providing to
you.  Please feel free to show this to all of your classes - no matter
the year level.  Other teachers such as coordinators and careers
advisers may also wish to make use of it.  I would love to get your
feedback on the presentation - and by all means, please let me know if
you find anything that can be added to it, and if you want to suggest
ways in which it can be improved.

All the best!

Adrian Janson

VITTA President

Director of ICT, Melbourne High School

T: +61 3 9495 6836

F: +61 3 9495 6834

E: jansona at mhs.vic.edu.au 

M: +61(0)407 818 037

W: www.vitta.org.au 

Suite 202, 134-136 Cambridge St,

Collingwood, VIC, 3066, Australia

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