The Career Education Lighthouse Schools Project

The Career Education Lighthouse Schools Project recognises good practice and encourages innovation in school career education programmes by providing funding to schools.

Lighthouse schools champion good practice in quality career education and encourage other secondary, primary, government and non-government schools to implement quality career education programmes.

The Australian Principals Association Professional Development Council (APAPDC) has been contracted to manage the Career Education Lighthouse Schools project.

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that all young people find and achieve their potential by ensuring they have access to high quality, relevant and up to date career information and guidance.

Principals and career advisers play a vital role in the delivery of career education in schools. Good career education programmes help young people to:

• understand themselves, the world of work and how best to turn their aspirations into reality;
• identify education, training and employment pathways at school and beyond school.

The aim of the Lighthouse project is to improve the delivery of career education in schools through disseminating positive examples of career education programmes which encourage other schools to develop a planned and coordinated approach to career education.

Applications for 2009 funding round are now open.

Who should apply?

Schools from all sectors and all states and territories can apply for Career Education Lighthouse funding. Schools are encouraged to actively engage their Local Community Partnership (LCP) in as many ways as possible with their proposed Lighthouse project.

Individual schools and clusters of schools can apply for Career Lighthouse funding to:

• develop an existing good practice career education programme;
• or trial and evaluate an innovative career education programme which builds on existing good practice.

All Career Education Lighthouse schools need to plan, develop, implement, evaluate, document and disseminate their project experiences and learning’s to career advisers, teachers, principals, parents and the community so that other schools can benefit from the project and integrate findings into their own career programs.

• individual schools can apply for up to $10,000;
• clusters of two schools can apply for up to $17,500;
• clusters of three schools can apply for up to $25,000; and
• clusters of four or more schools can apply for up to $30,000.

Further information can be accessed at: http://www.careerlighthouse.deewr.gov.au/funding_applications.htm (source: DEEWR)

Please also feel free to contact your Local Community Partnership Coordinator (Alice Williams - details on the right hand side of this blogspot) to discuss further options.