As Covid and flu compound exisiting staff vacancies, principals and teaching unions worry about additional pressure on schools
forecast to experience the biggest shortfalls. The figures – from federal government modelling – also showed more than 50,000 teachers were expected to permanently leave the profession between 2020 and 2025, including almost 5,000 teachers aged between 25 and 29.
The workforce shortages predate Covid and are well-documented, with teachers reporting feeling overworked, underpaid, struggling with poor behaviour of students and burdened by administrative tasks even before the pandemic began. “In the end it had a toll on his health, his life after school and was impacting his family,” she says. “It was a difficult and heartfelt conversation about him saying, ‘I can’t do this for my own health and have to leave the profession’.”During the election campaign, federal Labor unveiled a scheme to financially incentivise high-achieving school leavers via $10,000 a year bursaries to study teaching in a bid to tackle shortages.
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