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