Nunavut says it needs to hire 54 more teachers as school year gets underway

It's not unusual for the northern territory to face teacher vacancies, with Nunavut needing 26 teachers around this time in 2020 and 60 in 2019.

While teacher vacancies are a concern across the country, it's especially difficult to recruit teachers in Nunavut, Matchett said. That's because most of Nunavut's teaching staff are from outside the territory and schools face high rates of staff turnover from year to year. He notes some teachers who were hired for this schoolyear decided not to come because there was no housing available for them.

Although the pandemic has eased in the territory, COVID-19 infections took hold in two communities -- Arviat and Iqaluit -- and caused both communities to shut their schools for months in 2020 and early 2021. A 2020 report from the Ontario College of Teachers said fewer teachers than expected renewed their licenses in 2020, resulting in a loss of about 3,600 teachers in that province.

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