Here at Year13 we understand that it’s difficult for high school students to decide what they want to do with their lives, especially with everything else going on during this time. Your children are facing a whole range of adversities from exams and assignments to mounting peer pressure and crossing milestones, like getting their driving […]
Could it really be as simple as free gelato? Well, yeah, it could be. Kinda. You see, it’s a cut throat battle between Australian universities to win over new students. Just as desperate as students are to get into their favourite university, universities are also in a competition to win over not only more students […]
For Gen Zs, TikTok recently gets all the hype but Instagram takes the crown on so many fronts. When we asked which social media apps they use regularly, Instagram came at #1 at 89%. Next in line were YouTube (76%), Snapchat (75%), TikTok (60%) and Facebook (56%) our What Gen Z Actually Do Online report found. And if […]
Why do Australian students go to high school? 48% say they go to school because they have to while 52% go to school because they want to according to a new Year13 and YouthSense report. After the ATAR III: The Role of Passion and Purpose in Connecting Youth to Meaningful Education and Employment has investigated […]
When tobacco smoking started falling out of favour with young Aussies, both parents and teachers breathed a long, deep, clean-air filled sigh of relief. That is, until vapes entered the market and exploded in popularity. If you’re not familiar with vaping, it’s “the act of smoking e-cigarettes, or vapes, which are lithium battery-powered devices that […]
e know: getting your teen out of bed can be a drag. But aside from testing your patience, did you … Forgive teens for being the absolute worst human in the morning. They probably just need more sleep! According to experts …
While NSW’s Delta variant outbreak was declared a “national emergency”, Premier Gladys Berejiklian has gone through a series of push-forwards and takesies-backsies around returning Sydney’s year 12 students to face-to-face learning. At one stage the government planned to have all year 12 students back to school on Monday, August 16, delivering rapid antigen testing to […]
If a teenager came across $10,000 in cold hard cash what would they do with it? Would they blow it on an epic, out of control house party to seal themselves in high school folklore for eternity like in the movie Project X? Or maybe fistfuls of bags overflowing with designer clothes like a scene […]
We gotta laugh about the awkwardness of video calling. Try romancing or ‘keeping it professional’ through two-second delays, freezes on grotesque faces, people talking over each other, and the incapacity to make eye contact. Nothing beats IRL interaction. In real life. In the flesh. Our minds and bodies together in harmonious sync. But as COVID-19 […]
Because in case you missed it, Instagram recently announced new measures to keep young people safer on Instagram. The move’s in response to increasing concerns about online safety and calls for social media apps to do more to protect young people online. Of the 89% of Gen Zs who use Instagram, a staggering one in […]
The teaching profession has been making headlines of late – for all the wrong reasons. Schools around the country are facing unprecedented teacher shortages due to a perfect storm of low completion rates of teacher degrees and early-career teachers dropping out of the profession en-masse. In 2020 a staggering one in six early career teachers […]
So your child has decided to take on an apprenticeship. Embarking on a new career that combines on-the-job training, work and getting paid while you’re at it? That’s certainly something to celebrate! But as the initial excitement wears off and the reality of new responsibilities kick in – well that can be challenging. And with […]
Advertising is far from its Don Draper days. While 20th-century advertising still targeted basic demographics like someone’s location and general interests, today’s ads can be targeted towards a much more detailed profile of an individual’s traits through stored online user data such as ‘likes’, posts, purchases and browsing history. Increasingly though the term “targeted ad” spells distrust. Netflix’s […]
The idea of digital learning sounds liberating at first. You can wear PJs all day. Cutting transportation, you can sleep in a little longer. And you can study from any location – how about the beach today? But that’s just not the reality. Most year 12 students have been scarred by their involuntary remote learning […]