In the age of being cancelled perhaps none hurts more than covid’s cancellation of year 12.  Sure it’s easy to wave … Behind funny cats and dancing challenges many young people are pleading for help. Eco-anxiety, social media pressure, teenage bullying, tragic … “A privileged Australian life blinds myself and others from the horrors to come. […]

Law, medicine and accounting. These are the careers that many parents will land on when flicking through university course guides … Have a read of this young woman’s story. It should be a cautionary tale to all school teachers, parents and … “Hey mum and dad, I’m gonna take a gap year!” Alarm bells ring. […]

Australia has a critical shortage of teachers.  And nurses. And engineers. And it’s serious. New South Wales alone will be … The teaching profession has been making headlines of late – for all the wrong reasons. Schools around the country are … Personal attributes are what make you you.  They are the things you mostly […]

Did you know that 90% of a child’s brain development occurs in the first five years of their life? And … Should children be used to help fill labour shortages in Australia’s retail and hospitality industries? The head of the Australian …

In this 13 Reasons Why series we explore the different problems Gen Z are dealing with as told to us … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFasaBF9lc Two Australian radio shock jocks ruled the Sydney airwaves in the late 1990s. John Laws and Alan Jones had … Marketing to Gen Z has never been easy. Today in the fractured media […]

Wacky transitions, nonsensical dialogues, distorted audio. On the level of 1 to ‘making sense of people who believe Earth is … They say if you can make people laugh, people will listen to you better. And now more than ever, people … Remember the saying ‘men are from Mars and women are from Venus’?  Well, […]

It’s in the text you’re reading on websites. It’s behind the design of every report you download. It’s in YouTube, … Understanding how someone can get rich off YouTube can seem like a total mystery.  I mean, we know it has … Famous words uttered by tech godfather Steve Jobs still reverberate in the mind […]

Has your child been tossing up between a career path or two but can’t quite make up their mind? Well, you might just be in luck and be able to steer them in the right direction or to somewhere else entirely. Because LinkedIn has just unveiled the top fastest-growing job titles which are going to […]

So your child has decided to take on an apprenticeship. Embarking on a new career that combines on-the-job training, work … What better way to start 2023 than with a teaser of the top industries hiring Gen Zs in Australia over … It’s an iconic moment for your teen.  They’ve just been invited to their […]

If extracurricular school activities held a popularity contest, we’d bet on school sport coming in dead last – despite its … Has marriage become… cringe? Well, according to our latest research, some Gen Zs appear more likely to say ‘I don’t’. … Let’s just make this clear first and foremost. We at Year13 firmly believe […]

So your child’s managed to land their first job. Woohoo! Now, while this is an exciting new adventure, it can also be fraught with nerves about, you know, how to… Read more Did you know accounting isn’t the boring ‘numbers job’ many people think it to be? Because as podcast host, co-founder of Illumin8, and […]

If you have Gen Z children who are planning to explore the world, you’re likely concerned about how they’ll manage … So your child has finally returned from their first trip overseas.  While you might be ecstatic about their return home …

Australia, there’s a green energy revolution blowing our way. And from construction to operation it’s generating massive growth areas for… Puberty and body image don’t have the best relationship. Throw sport in the mix and for some young people it’s… Bullying is a nightmare to deal with at any age. But when your child first […]

Every role in early childhood education has one thing in common: the opportunity to make a difference in the lives… (Insert sport name) is for girls. (Insert sport name) is for boys. Yeah, nah. Not for Gen Zs. At least… They’re just lazy. They just need to focus. They just need more self-discipline. Urgh. We […]