Key element 4: Community and business partnerships
A major process for the implementation of the new framework is the application of community and business partnerships. This is a recognition that individual stakeholders cannot achieve outcomes for young people by acting alone. The establishment and continuous development of partnerships between a wide and diverse range of agencies and groups concerned with young people is essential for the advancement of student outcomes.
The centrality of partnerships is a further indication that increasingly learning takes place in a variety of ways and in a variety of settings. There is a substantial body of growing evidence that indicates school students achieve learning outside the school. Other important learning settings include training providers, workplaces and community organisations. The advancement of this learning is possible only as a result of the establishment and development of genuine, local partnerships between those concerned with youth.
Government and non-government agencies at local, state/territory and national levels in partnership with business and the community will support and allow schools and local partnerships greater flexibility and authority to:
- create more diverse learning experiences and post-school opportunities for young people
- facilitate and support employers to participate in enterprise and vocational education activities
- coordinate local programs and services for young people
- implement local responses to the transition issues facing young people.