Preparing students for the future
At Korowa, career education gives students the opportunity to explore what might come next without expecting them to have all the answers. Through real-world experiences, career planning, industry exposure, and university exploration, students build a stronger understanding of their interests, strengths, and the pathways available to them.
Our Year 10 World of Work Week is an important part of this journey, connecting classroom learning with workplaces, tertiary education, emerging technology, and the skills students will need beyond school.
Career education that starts with the individual
World of Work Week begins by helping our students better understand themselves. Through dedicated career workshops, students explore their interests, strengths, aptitudes, and the different ways these could translate into future study and employment.
Guest Speaker Alana from Unserious Careers challenged students to think beyond traditional ideas of what a career should look like and consider the possibilities of an evolving employment landscape.
Students also worked with Tyson from Arrive and Thrive to explore their individual Morrisby career profiling in greater depth. Rather than treating the results as a prescription for their future, students learned how to use these insights as another tool when considering subject choices, tertiary study, and potential careers.
At Year 10, it’s not about deciding what you’ll do for the rest of your life. It’s about discovering what interests you and building the confidence to explore it.
Connecting students with real workplaces
As part of World of Work Week, Year 10 students ventured beyond the Korowa campus to visit industries across Melbourne aligned with their individual career interests.
Students interested in sport and business visited Catapult, gaining insight into the intersection of sport, technology, data, and business. The experience exposed students to career possibilities within the rapidly evolving sports industry and demonstrated how different disciplines can come together within one organisation.
At Cabrini Malvern, students interested in health and medicine discovered the breadth of careers available across healthcare. They explored Allied Health, medical imaging, oncology and exercise science research, nursing, mental health, and medicine, while hearing directly from professionals about their day-to-day work and pathways into the industry.
From sports technology to medical imaging, these experiences gave students something a classroom alone can’t replicate: the opportunity to step inside a professional environment, meet the people doing the work, and see where their own interests could one day take them.
Exploring university pathways
Understanding the transition from secondary school to tertiary education is another important part of preparing students for life beyond Year 12.
World of Work Week included a visit to the University of Melbourne, where students toured the campus, explored its facilities, and learned more about university courses and pathways.
Experiencing a university environment while still in Year 10 gives students time to ask questions, understand their options, and begin considering what tertiary study could look like for them.
It also puts future decisions into context. Subject selection, VCE pathways, university prerequisites, and career interests begin to connect as part of a bigger picture.
Preparing for AI and the future of work
Rather than simply preparing students to use new technology, we want them to understand it, question it, and recognise how they can contribute in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
During an AI and Entrepreneurship workshop with the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, students explored the possibilities and applications of AI before developing their own ideas for how the technology could be used more effectively.
They then pitched their ideas to their peers, putting another set of future-ready skills into practice: communication, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking.
While technology will continue to transform workplaces, these human capabilities will remain essential.
Developing skills for life beyond school
By giving students opportunities to engage with workplaces, universities, industry professionals, and emerging technologies before they leave school, we help make the future feel less abstract.
Students can test their assumptions. Discover new possibilities. Change their minds. Strengthen an ambition. Ask questions they hadn’t thought to ask before.
Most importantly, they learn that their future isn’t something they need to have perfectly mapped out.
At Korowa, our Year 10 students aren’t simply being asked, “What do you want to be?”
We’re helping them discover what they’re capable of becoming.
