It’s not just COVID-19. Low salaries, subpar working conditions and lack of resources in the classroom are three of the reasons why teachers are abandoning the profession.
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A new report comes at a critical time. Every year, between 5% and 9% of Australian students do not meet year-level expectations in literacy or numeracy.
Education Minister Jason Clare says completion rates for teaching degrees are 50% compared to 70% for other degrees. This sounds alarming but there is a different way to look at the figures.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says migration is one ‘practical’ solution to get classrooms staffed. But there are also signification teacher shortages in the UK, US and Canada.
Two teacher educators look at how we can keep students in teaching degrees. Reimbursing them for professional placements in schools would be a start.
Australia’s education ministers have asked their departments to come up with a new plan to address the teacher shortage by December.
Today, state and federal education ministers will meet in Canberra to discuss the teacher shortage. It will be their first in-person meeting for more than a year.
New research finds students are having panic attacks and losing money on a test they must pass to qualify as teachers.
Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.
Three years observing in a public school has given one scholar a close-up look at the sweeping challenges in public education.
Education experts say putting student teachers in classrooms risks seeing teacher attrition levels like we have never seen before.
New research examines 25 years of newspaper reporting of teachers and finds consistent evidence of “teacher bashing”.
There are more than 600,000 students in government and Catholic schools learning English as an additional language.
One teacher together with 25 kids in a classroom may no longer work as the norm for Australian schools.
The teacher shortage in Australia has reached crisis levels. We will fix this by improving the conditions for existing teachers, not with cash incentives for university students.
Many students with disabilities got few or no services during the pandemic, and aren’t now receiving the support they need to regain their lost ground and continue to learn
With decreasing teacher degree completion rates and low teacher retention, Australia was already facing a growing teacher shortage before the pandemic. But it’s about to get much worse.
Teaching graduates must have spent time training in schools for the day they take charge of their own classes. But the past two years have laid bare the system’s failings.
If national teacher policies are not comprehensive, practical and inclusive of teachers, they can undermine the very workers they aim to help, a global education policy expert argues.
Health concerns, being older than 55 and having to switch to online or hybrid lessons were all factors that made some teachers want to quit or retire.
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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Distinguished Professor of educational psychology, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Education, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Digital Transformation, Monash University
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Lecturer - Educational Leadership, Monash University
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Professor, Griffith Institute for Educational Research and School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, University of South Australia
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Professor and Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, Centre for Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Initial Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Educational Administration, Penn State
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Professor Susan Ledger, Head of School - Dean of Education, University of Newcastle, NSW., University of Newcastle
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
