This is a very good report just released by NCVER Australia. While written in the Australian context it has a number of key messages for the tertiary education sector in New Zealand in terms of providing programmes to enable older workers to re-skill for encore careers. Download here
The chapter headings give a flavor of the report
- Ageing in the third age
- Older workers’ experience
- Policies that encourage older workers to keep working
- Barriers limiting work opportunities for older workers
- What is an ‘encore career’?
- A working definition of ‘encore careers’
- Who are encore careers for?
- Is there a better label than ‘encore career’?
- Creating encore career programs
- Existing encore career programs
- Encore career programs in the Australian context
- Challenges (impediments) to implementing encore career programs
- Infrastructure for encore careers