Careers
Claire Pech – Careers Advisor
Changes in response to COVID-19
As everyone else is reporting on changes in response to COVID-19, I am following suit and 
addressing any GAP, Careers, Uni related topics.
What is happening for any students in response to careers and COVID-19?
Firstly, I think all GAP experiences for 2020 will be different to any other group of students that have gone before them. If there are parents of GAP year students reading this (as I said to an Alum, Class of 2019 student this week), we have to remember the world is not going anywhere, even amid this changing tide.
Maybe at the moment world travel has changed, considerably, but all Uni students will still continue to get long holidays into the future, where extensive travel can take place. And the year directly after Uni finishes is always a great time to travel. An extended break when University is over, but also students are older and wiser, can also be a great time to take extended travel. More and more universities are now also embedding travel into their degree programs, especially for long semester long experiences. So once this currently fragile situation dies down, the world will still be around to visit.
I do know of some students who are planning on now starting University mid-year, and if this is you, contact your institution to see what their policy is, they may be past the date of enrolling at this stage. I also know of students who are stopping their GAP year and enrolling as either part time students, or online students in order to commence studies.
University talks
We had plans for both Australian National University and Sydney University to present to our Year 12’s. Due to University changes these are now unable to take place, but we have rescheduled both events and endeavour to host ANU the week before their deadline to apply coming up in May. For domestic applications for ANU Undergraduate click here
Year 10 Careers Avenues – interviews
As noted in letters home to parents this week, students will still be continuing on with their interviews for Career Avenues for Monday 6 April 2020 and Tuesday 7 April 2020, but they will not be face to face. These interviews will now take place via Zoom video links and, failing that, a phone number will be available. Career Avenues staff will be sending out these Zoom interview invites the day prior to these interviews, so students should watch out for these in their inboxes. I will also be sending home hard copies of the Career Avenues profiles, so if your son or daughter has not had theirs taken home by early next week, please ask them for it. The digital copy will also be emailed to them.
Notices
Law Undergraduate Information Evening at UTS here
UCAT – Exams for Undergraduate Medicine here
The following are a list of UCAT Masterclass articles from a private provider of UCAT preparation: