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Redesigning Your Child's Education Experience

IDEA offers a proven and innovative education option for young Australians aged 14 – 18 years. We provide a personalised learning environment and co-designed vocational pathways, supporting learners to thrive based on their unique strengths, interests, and aspirations.

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An Info Session is the first step in your IDEA journey. If you think IDEA could be the right place for your young person, come see our space, meet our people and discover how we empower every learner.

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Welcome to IDEA

About Us

We help you thrive in your education, guide the first steps in your career, and prepare you for the future of work.

IDEA offers a portfolio-based vocational program designed for young people seeking more than the status quo from their education.

At our dynamic co-learning hubs, students engage on a flexible schedule and work closely with a dedicated team of IDEA staff and mentors to craft a bespoke program catered to their needs and ambition.

When students graduate from IDEA, they leave with a portfolio that becomes their ticket to university, further education and training, employment, or entrepreneurship. Our holistic approach equips young people with the confidence, connections, and credentials they need to kickstart their careers.

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Trusted Partners

IDEA was designed and built by a group of parents and educators who are passionate about the future of education. We are backed by a collective of individuals and organisations who believe that by working together, we can reimagine the future of education in Australia.

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Explore Our Program

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Community Stories

Meet our students

Alani was on a predicted ATAR of 94 in Year 11 but felt bored and under-engaged at school. She joined IDEA seeking more relevant and challenging learning experiences that could give her greater confidence in her post-school pathway.

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Archie attended public high school until Year 10. His Autism and ADHD meant that he struggled to make connections and reach his potential in a mainstream setting. He came to IDEA seeking a more personalised program that could support him in building his confidence in a work-like setting and use his interest in programming as a baseline to boost his engagement, allowing him to explore multiple other career opportunities.

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Luka was home educated for most of his schooling. In Year 10, he decided to explore his options for senior secondary. He didn’t want to return to mainstream school and wanted a more supported environment than full-time TAFE.

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Harrison is an intelligent, mature, self-motivated teen who struggled to find his voice and build confidence in mainstream schooling. In Year 9, Harrison left school to become an independent learner. He decided to join IDEA in Year 11 and 12 to broaden his network and opportunities, refine his learning pathway and re-connect with a peer group.

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What Our Community Says

I can't recommend IDEA enough as an alternative schooling option. As a person who works with students to help them find alternative pathways to schooling as well as post school career options, I have recommended IDEA many times. My own child graduated from IDEA with three VET certificates and a resume that is packed to the rafters after two years. So many opportunities available as they are not hindered by the normal school parameters. Thanks to IDEA my child has flourished, I know he wouldn’t have done so if he had stayed in mainstream.

I'm so grateful that we found IDEA for our child. What an incredible bunch of staff! They genuinely care for the students and offer them so many opportunities that they'd never get in the school system!

IDEA provided me with the opportunity to see the future of learning first-hand. They have given me a personalised pathway, allowing me to part-take in multiple real-world learning opportunities I genuinely believe I would not find anywhere else. IDEA has also provided me with a supportive and motivating environment, one that I believe is essential in the development of a fantastic future.

I cannot speak highly enough of Nicole, Bec, Andy and the entire team at IDEA. Our gorgeous daughter never quite fit into the mainstream education model, and IDEA provided her with the care, support and direction she truly needed. We are incredibly proud to share that she has now begun her studies at Curtin University, something made possible thanks to the dedication and belief of the IDEA team. Thank you for changing lives. You are all amazing.

Our son is on such a high since he started IDEA....This family has been so impacted by what you have created. I just don't have the right words to adequately capture the gratitude I feel towards you and the amazing tribe you have gathered around you....our son is talking about his future, His new friends, the city, jobs....travel! Me, well I am talking every night to his Dad about my heart singing seeing our boy happy ....through happy tears. When I tell our boy how Im feeling he smiles pats my arm and says "I know Mum, I know!" THANK YOU NICOLE.

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Who is IDEA for?

IDEA unshackles our world’s most important thinkers so they can get on with making it a better. While every student is unique, students entering our program tend to identify with one or more of these core student archetypes.