Why Australia has a teacher shortage

Australian Community Media

Schools across Australia are struggling to recruit teachers. High university drop-out rates, pay, and professional status contribute to the problem. Governments are looking at reforms to attract new teachers and better support the ones we've got.

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00:00 we've got more kids being born and we've got fewer people interested in teaching.

00:27 There's a 50% dropout rate from kids at university who are studying teaching, whereas across

00:32 all degrees the dropout rate's more like 30%. So we actually need to look at what's happening

00:37 inside our universities.

00:44 If we don't actually get some measures to address the impossible workloads that teachers

00:51 are dealing with, we'll continue to see teachers leaving the profession and having trouble

00:55 attract those teachers to the professions.

00:57 (upbeat music)

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