Why students and teachers are quitting school - a podcast by triple j

Trying to work and study during a generation-defining pandemic hasn’t been easy.

Students have been juggling lockdowns, missing milestones and just trying to figure themselves out. Teachers have been struggling with huge workloads and burnout. Now into our third year of COVID, a rising number of young people want out.

The government says a decade old plan to resettle refugees in New Zealand is close to being finalised.

Plus, a year ago Chanel Contos was leading a national campaign for mandatory consent education in Australian schools. Now Education Ministers across the country have unanimously committed to implementing it in every school.

Live guests:
Caroline Hill, scholarship program manager at the Harding Miller Foundation
Nick McKim, immigration spokesperson for The Greens
Chanel Contos, activist

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