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#SocialWork #P4P #SocialWorkMonth #UnpaidInternships #SocialWorkEducation #Advocacy #StudentActivism #SocialJustice #MSW #BSW #TakeAction #PracticumPoverty #payment4placements #placementpoverty #unpaidisunfair 4/4

#placementpoverty among allied health and medical students:

"Unpaid placements create a huge inequity where only people who are financially secure are able to complete these degrees"

X Food insecurity: 70.2% (27.7% severe)
Read more: publish.csiro.au/AH/AH24233

Government to tackle university 'placement poverty' - ABC listen Some teaching, nursing and social worker students at university will get paid for their placements from 2025 as the government begins its response to the university accord. It comes alongside changes...

Noticeably excluded from this are #Veterinary students who must perform 2440 hours (the most of any other student) of mandatory unpaid placement.

This will do nothing to stop #PlacementPoverty anyway. Means tested and well below the poverty line.

#auspol #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice

Yellow license plate with the number 2440 written in black.

2,440.

The number of hours of unpaid placement #veterinary students are required to complete. Most often during school breaks, on top of an already difficult, stressful & competitive degree.

#auspol #PlacementPoverty #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice #Education #University

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...