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Ciriello lost his job and couldn't find work for nearly a year, leading to significant financial hardship for his family, who lived in motels and later in a car.

Work from home works for families, because it saves time and money and it gets more parents working. Victoria will launch legislation to give employees the legal right to work from home two days per week, with laws due to come into effect on September 1.

Unlike traditional AI systems that wait for prompts, agentic AI systems understand goals, make decisions, initiate actions, and continuously adapt based on outcomes. In Learning and Development (L&D), this marks a fundamental shift, from AI as a support tool to AI as an active learning partner.

"Along with women, young people between the ages of 12 and 24 are the most financially illiterate demographic," Financial Basics Foundation chief executive Katrina Samios said.

I can honestly say that if I was 18 now, there is no way I would go to university only to leave with huge debts and poor job prospects. Instead, I would become an electrician or similar trade.

The Australian Education Union (AEU) is recommending a 30.4 hour job-share model in state schools to expand working from home options for teachers, while keeping kids at school five days a week. The union has warned the government will need to get creative to ensure roles that can't be done from home are still appealing. Under the proposal, if you can reasonably do your job from home, you would have the right to do so for at least two days a week.

LinkedIn is taking steps to prove that job candidates really have they skills they claim. The Verified AI Skills program unveiled in January involves LinkedIn partnering with AI tool providers to automatically validate and display a user's proficiency directly in their certification section. The initial partners include Lovable, Replit, Relay.app, and Descript, which will track AI proficiency of candidates using their tools to create AI apps.

In Australia, AI has largely been positioned as a way to stretch limited skills capacity in high-cost specialist roles, rather than as a headcount reduction tool. Despite widespread tech layoffs globally and locally over the past few years, Australia's skills shortage has remained largely unchanged. Cuts at large technology firms have often weakened the broader ecosystem, impacting smaller suppliers and subcontractors alongside the firms making redundancies. Rather than releasing excess capacity into the market, layoffs have tended to redistribute pressure across an already constrained talent

Young people are "experiencing higher education differently, and that is shaping much of what parents are saying," said Lammers. "[Parents] are reacting to the questions their children are asking and trying to find the best way to help them navigate the next steps."

One of my favorite movies is Good Will Hunting. Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) is a 20-year-old janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although he works a blue-collar job, he is secretly a self-taught genius with an extraordinary gift for mathematics and an exceptional memory. One day, he anonymously solves a complex math problem left on a chalkboard by Professor Gerald Lambeau, astonishing the faculty.

While community college advocates argued the lower-cost degrees would benefit students in a state with vast rural expanses and education deserts, private universities countered that community colleges are stepping out of bounds and infringing on their territory. Greg Steinke, the president of the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, even went so far as to say the move could put some institutions out of business, telling lawmakers a few weeks ago that "without any question and without any doubt," if the bill passed, "some of our private colleges will close."