A free education for hundreds of unemployed in a skill shortage area with paid internships and no upfront cost to government. Sounds too good to be true? Not for the 150 South Australians who are involved in a pilot program that is rewriting the policy book on adult education leading to gainful employment.
“I didn’t want my PhD sitting on a bookshelf in Oxford gathering dust, and was convinced that this new model should exist and really have an impact in the world,” Ware says.“What happens is the government agrees to reimburse or pass back a percentage of the increase in the income tax revenue they receive that’s attributable to the retrained individuals for a certain period of time.
The pilot, to which the state government has guaranteed $3 million, involved training from established tech training outlets General Assembly, Nology, Generation, 42 and others. Within weeks of starting with 42, she had secured the first of two traineeships with Accenture. She gave that away when the cybersecurity firm Digital Resilience came knocking with an offer of another paid traineeship in the exact area in which she aspires to work. She spends three days a week at Digital Resilience and two days a week at college.
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