Braidwood Boys take on Gardening The Links to Learning program aims to empower students to become active citizens, by building their connections with their community and giving them strategies to seek and obtain support to address barriers and issues they face. All of this will...
Let's talk about the pink elephant in schools. In a modern world teenagers exhibiting signs of anxiety is rife, and levels of poor self-confidence is terrifyingly high. With bullying, sometimes precarious home lives, high study loads and social media ever present, a world where selfies take...
Putting some Spark back into Yass What can you do when faced with a high rate of youth disengagement and unemployment coupled with lack of training opportunities in a regional context? Get creative is what! Since March 2017, the SRBEC’s Regional VET Pathways program has been working...
Southern Region BEC have been pairing senior high school students with local employers under the Structured Workplace Learning Program for over 17 years. In 2017 alone, we have coordinated more than 800 placements throughout Queanbeyan, Braidwood, Cooma, Yass, Goulburn and Crookwell. In 2018 we hope that you...
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“Don’t they realise that we are people too?” I am sitting in class with a group of Year 8 boys, discussing why it is that school is such a hard place for many students to reside in, and exploring why there are so many instances...
In recent years I have spent most of my life travelling, living overseas, going on holidays, buying most things I want/need and having the money up front to pay for it. People always ask, how can you afford to do that? Especially those that know...
Update 6 At this week’s session, we got back to basics. Each student was given a folder in which there were handouts covering what we had covered so far in QUPCAKES. It was good to go back and have a look at all the different topics,...
Update 4 This week’s Session 4 turned out to be very interesting. We had a guest speaker, Germaine Muller, who is the Marketing Officer at SRBEC. Germaine talked to the students about marketing QUPCAKES. After over an hours discussion about logos, taglines, colours, social media and...
The Far South Coast Links to Learning Bega High students have been very busy. Putting their creative forces to great use they are working in collaboration with Bega Valley Shire Council to create a wonderful mural to give life to the soon to be Bega...