'Profession in crisis': warning about teacher shortage risk

, with a fall in students beginning teaching degrees coming at the same time as a projected boom in school enrolments.

The lack of consensus on the supply of teachers is partly due to limited data available in key areas such as the number of teaching graduates that enter classrooms and teacher retention rates. This is the first fall in both applications and offers in at least seven years, and comes as governments in NSW, Victoria and Queensland launch school building projects to meet expected surges in student populations.

"There is a shortage in some specific subject areas such as maths and science, but that's been the case for a long time.

That’s because they pay tutors so little yet try to attract international students to pay huge fees. Building buildings but not paying teachers

In my experience (I accept that I'm becoming something of a curmudgeon in my old age but nevertheless) some of the dumbest folk I've encontered are those in a. the educational bureaucracy and b. road and traffic design, management and signage

Ah, but by all means please do continue equating good teaching with the ability to churn out hundreds of pretty little lesson plans. And keep on loading teachers with busy work that has two fifths of bugger all with actual teaching.

They have been saying this for the last 10 years and I as a science teacher call bull$hit!

Shortage of ALP voters more like it

-ve community attitudes of teachers, long hrs marking, prepping, extra-curricula activities & onerous administrative task (sure, go on about weeks holiday) & the wages that don’t compensate 4 yrs of study, and as a former teacher I say, educate yr own kids, who’d want that job!

A few years ago, 5 or so, there were in NSW an unbelievable 44k teachers who were either not employed or not fully employed. Yes we have always been short of Maths and Science teachers.

There is no shortage. You can basically teach for life. Impossible to get fired. This is just university deans trying to keep enrolments high.

The ones coming out of university are incompetent. Best we import decent teachers from Asia.

There has been a shortage of male teachers in Australia’s primary schools for decades. Nothing happens. Pfft. 🙄

Maybe it’s time to change the way education is delivered. Internet schooling for those who can fit with this kind of scheme?

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