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What the remarkable Mr Laing did next
Editor’s note: In 2021, Paul Laing won EduResearch Matters Blog/Blogger of the Year Award, which recognises an outstanding …
What we must do now to rescue Australian schools
We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop …
Why restoring trust in teaching now could fix the teacher shortage
Burnout is blamed for an exodus of teachers contributing to ‘a teacher shortage crisis’ in Australian schools. The …
Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them
The federal minister for education Jason Clare convened a roundtable to solve the teacher shortage on the eve of the new government’s Job Summit. Items on the agenda? It wasn’t hard to go past working conditions, status, and a growing, chronic teacher shortage as the impetus for history-making industrial action and considerable media coverage. Concerns about …
Why that one tweet went viral (and what we must do now to fix “teacher shortages”)
I almost never post on Twitter. Sometimes I like other people’s posts, but I’ve been a reluctant Twitter …
Here’s what a brave new minister for education could do right away to fix the horrific teacher shortage
The new Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare announced last Friday he would convene a Teacher Workforce Roundtable …
Teachers deserve more than love and praise. They deserve a raise.
Our second post on the NSW Teachers’ strike It has been 10 years since NSW public sector teachers …
The future of teachers’ pay: time to send a better price signal
Today we will feature two posts on the NSW Teachers’ strike. This is the first post. At the peak of their careers teachers earn less than electricians, physios, PR people and chiropractors and half that paid to lawyers and finance managers. What we pay people – especially those at the top of their game – …
Will the Quality Time Action Plan reduce teacher workload?
Teachers want more time for lesson planning, not less. Last week, the NSW Department of Education released the Quality Time Action Plan, intended to “simplify administrative practices in schools”. Having highlighted the concerning growth in administrative workload in schools in a report based on a survey of more than 18,000 teachers for the NSW Teachers …
The government must know how to fix the teacher shortage. Why won’t it act now?
Schools are struggling with major teacher shortages and the reason is clear. Australia’s education system is missing one fundamental part – a national teacher recruitment and retention strategy. Every other country I have reviewed has one; here’s England’s, here is Bulgaria’s, Zimbabwe’s is recently announced. I’m not emphasising this because we should copy other countries. …