Bonuses, cheaper degrees on agenda as ministers meet to tackle teacher shortage | adamlcarey
High-performing teachers would get financial bonuses, university fees for teaching degrees would be lowered and the use of employment-based degrees, where teaching students work in schools and earn while they learn, would be expanded under a series of proposals states will put forward to tackle the nation’s teacher shortage.
Victoria’s education union has called on governments to pay teachers “retention bonuses” for staying in their roles as a way to stave off an exodus of school staff from the profession. “We’ve got to look at some way the government can provide an incentive to get people to consider staying,” she said. “For us, it’s about recognition of the work that they have put in, particularly after the last two years.”
The college had advertised nine permanent and fixed-term teaching roles for next year, but had received just one applicant, Hilditch said. Australia faces an imminent shortage of about 4100 secondary school teachers as enrolments grow and entries into teaching courses decline, the paper warns.
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