Teaching is an attractive profession that many want to enter. The problem is there are too many barriers in the way.
resulted in the closure of 450 public and independent schools and interruption to schooling of 700,000 students, despite the NSW government proposing a 3 per cent salary increase.Brook Mitchell
Even among early-career teachers, considered most vulnerable to dropping out, only about 11 per cent leave within five years . In recent years, fewer potential teachers have entered the pipeline through university education degrees. Pay rigidities mean career-changers must start teaching on entry-level salaries, with no capacity to recognise subject knowledge or experience. That deters potential entrants from exactly the fields of industry that would most benefit the teacher workforce.
intends to build “a teaching workforce with the size, strength and skill to deliver the excellent education that we all want for our children”.
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