Reimagining Youth Policy And Education To Improve The Lives Of Young People

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“The CYPEP will seek to create and use evidence to navigate a path to solving these societal issues. We aim to determine whether there are factors that disproportionately affect young people, and to explore how better evidence-based policy and practice in education can address youth disadvantage.

CYPEP is run by a multi-disciplinary, multi-method team undertaking research into the social, political and economic factors, forces and trends that affect young people’s lives.

More specifically, the Centre will explore the question of whether being young is a disadvantage by bringing together existing indicators of how young people are faring in the form of a Youth Barometer that will examine the pressures felt by Australian youth across social, political, economic and wellbeing indicators. The Centre will then explore these trends in relation to education policy and practice.

“It’s important as educators to support young people to navigate uncertainty and to empower them to imagine and create a more secure life. It’s about having a language of possibility,” said Professor Viv Ellis, Dean of the Faculty of Education.

The official launch of the Centre will take place on Tuesday 24 August 2021 and as part of the launch the Centre will release its first discussion paper: Life, Disrupted: Young People, Education and Employment Before and After COVID-19.