Zara Seidler
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2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2d ago
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But to answer your question, if I set the scene, students enrolled in nursing degrees have to complete 800 hours in a clinic or a hospital.
Crazy.
Midwives need 1,600 hours and, of course, in some cases students have to live and work remotely for part of their course, especially for medical degrees.
So these are really significant steps.
placements.
Some of them are even full time.
And as you said, many students can't then get a job.
I mean, it's just not practical to then have to get a job outside of that.
And so until last year, these students weren't getting paid at all.
None of these students who are experiencing this were getting paid.
This was recognised as quite a major issue.
It was called placement poverty and the government was recommended to do something about it.
And so they did.
And so from July last year, the government introduced paid placements for very specific professions or for specific studies, I should say.
So those studying nursing, midwifery, teaching and social work were
They could, if they were enrolled in those courses, get $331.65 per week while doing the mandatory prac placements as part of their degree.
And then that amount, I'm going to use another really specific number, went up to $338.60 this year.
Did you say per week?
It's not and this is actually, I mean, this is a perfect segue.
This is one of the things that some of the students who had already accessed this scheme had complained about or I guess just pointed to, the fact that you can't get any other income if you're working full-time or it's difficult to and $330 a week if you're working at a full-time rate is very minimal.
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