A unique opportunity to be part of something grand!

Shaping the future for next-generation Australians.

Available for high school students aged 14-19.

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WTF?

What’s The Future?

Today’s youth is known to have a promising future marketplace – perfect opportunities for a successful career or inspiring entrepreneurship. Yet, we find through our work that today’s high school students struggle with choosing their pathway after school.

We are heading up a project called The Grand Student Survey (TGSS) – an initiative to enable, engage and embrace the young generation. We get to know our youth and understand their attitudes and beliefs, after which we help propel them towards their future pathway.

Our objective is to listen, collaborate and get feedback from students, parents, educators & industry partners.

This collaboration goes hand-in-hand with our platform that:

A) Enables students to gain connections and work experience opportunities;
B) Supports schools, innovation and business; and
C) Eases the workload of school staff as well as industry partners.

TGSS has been designed to spotlight important issues, such as:

🚫 Disconnect

Between students, schools and industry partners.

🎓 Students

Struggle to gain relevant work experience opportunities.

🏫 School

Lack of real-world experience opportunities.

 Parents 

Inadequate involvement and engagement with ever-changing industry trends.

🏢 Organisation

Difficulty in attracting, retaining and nurturing its young talent pool.

Industry

Disparities in work experience program structures.

Why

Our Vision

Enable connections for the emerging young generation.

Our Mission

Promote skills and opportunities to undertake Future of Work

How

What are we doing to reach these goals…

We are listening to what the next global generation have to say – it is the largest generation ever, after all – comprising around 20% of Australia’s population.

This campaign is designed to have an open a dialogue – with a focus on you. We want to provide an opportunity to have your voice heard, have an opportunity to explain your

worldview,

and take hold of your future.

We are working alongside people who contribute to the empowerment of young Australians. Through collaboration, The Grand Student Survey Campaign is bought to new heights.

We welcome organisations and individuals who want to help us prepare for tomorrow by supporting future skills and experience today!

Examining current trend is a key component of changing the future for young Australians. We are looking at the data and statistics from the experts.

If you are a researcher or data hero, who has done amazing work – we would love to hear from you! Your contributions will help young Australians prepare for a better future.

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There are many more reasons why we have taken this initiative

Data published here will be available as open source – Licensed under a Creative Commons, free to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

Current Hecs Debt

42.3bn
A report revealed the value of the HECS loan portfolio was projected to reach $185.2bn in 2026
Source: THE AUSTRALIAN

Despite of their university degree

32% Grads
did not find full-time employment within four months of completing their degree
Source: The CONVERSATION

it takes an average of

4.7 years
to find full-time job post-graduation!
Source: FYA Report

In 2015, out of 11.3m employed

56%
didn’t work in the field of their highest qualification
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

COMPANIES are SHEDding DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Work Experience
Big companies like Google, Apple, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterHouse and Ogilvy are now hiring people based on merit rather than credentials
Source: THE CONVERSATION