2023 Current Exhibition at VU - VU Special Collections - How to access and use

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Explore material relating to employments, jobs, vocation, and skills from the Special Collections at Victoria University within the themes of:

VU and the West
Unemployment
Education and employability
Skills & trade

The exhibition showcases material from across all collections with an emphasis on VU and the West, including activism in areas of job security and skills.

A list of the material on display is attached here, and images of the items are provided below.

For those studying at University, consider what skills you may need to move into your employment of choice. QR codes are provided on exhibition cabinets of Level 2 of the Footscray Park library to link through to VU Employ for careers advice and support. Here is a link to VU Employ.

Employability and Work Special Collections Exhibition

VU & the West

Melbourne's west [CD] : the gateway to growth

Go west young woman! : munitions diary 1985 : women at work in Melbourne's Western Suburbs

Training : a shared investment, stage II : a survey of Western Suburbs Industry

Poor man's university : 75 years of technical education in Footscray

King Street Primary School, West Melbourne, no. 1689 : centenary souvenir, 1876-1976

Rescuing the past : Yarraville State School / LEAP participants

Jobs gone west : a report on unemployment in the western region of Melbourne

Evaluation report : Certificate IV Training and Assessment, Timor-Leste

Report to the Minister for Education : the provision of post-secondary education for the outer western metropolitan region of Melbourne

Manufacturing in the north west region : a profile of three industries - transport, clothing, textiles. Working paper no. 2

Shire of Werribee labour force and employment study: final report

Effective partnerships, the school work program : a practical guide for implementing vocational programs in the VCE

Unemployment

I want to work

The means to full employment

Unemployment in the cities : what can we do? : proceedings of a conference convened by the Australian Institute of Urban Studies (South Australian Division) in September 1981

Determining the needs of unemployed young people in Sunshine

Save Geelong : the unemployment crisis

Depression down under

Workers' rights & unemployment

Unemployment fact and fiction

Technology ... : the unemployment and environment crisis

Why are there so few tertiary sector jobs in Western Melbourne?

Youth unemployment & the training myth (the abuse of Kirby)

Proposed unemployment relief works 1935/36, 1936/37, 1938/39, 1939/40, 1940/41

Education for employment

The length of the teacher's professional life

The golden key, or, Educating for life

Rebuilding education & health in a post-conflict transitional nation : case studies from Timor-Leste

Reform in the primary school

The trade and industry of Australasia : being a report on the state of and openings for trade, and the condition of local industries, in Australia and New Zealand

Technical education in Australia

100 schools programme : improving the quality of primary education in East Timor

Technical education in Victoria : 1868-1934

Education - what for? : a consideration of the general economic and educational prospects and options for the young

Migrant education - interim report

Timor-Leste education : the way forward : a summary report from the World Bank

Report of a special Committee on Handwriting in Victorian State Schools

Skills & trade

Meet the ship painters & dockers

8 hours labour 8 hours recreation 8 hours rest : May Day greetings

Metal workers demand 35 hour week

Working women shape their future

My apprenticeship

Jobs without workers : a Brotherhood of St. Laurence social action study

Pilioko : artist of the Pacific = artiste du Pacifique

Wize up!

Deep-bottom fishing techniques for the Pacific Islands : a manual for fishermen

Without prejudice : draft proposal, third phase of the structural efficiency principle (S.E.P.) : job re-design for tram and bus division

Roof plumbing, Gas fitting, Sanitary plumbing and water supply, Building construction for plumbing apprentices

Build the fleet, the challenge for maritime workers : a Communist Party proposal

Older workers : myths and realities

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