teacher recruitment

A frantic year for education. ICYMI – here are our big reads of the year

Thank you to our many wonderful readers so far this year – and particularly to our many wonderful

Teachers now: Why I left and where I’ve gone

By Robyn Brandenburg, Ellen Larsen, Richard Sallis and Alyson Simpson

“When you are a high achieving person, teaching sets you up for failure because you are never enough for everybody.” The teaching profession is in crisis. By 2025, the federal government estimates a shortfall of more than 4,000 high school teachers across the country. While there is a significant body of research that has tracked

One day to go: the great education reckoning as parties eye the election prize

By Mihajla Gavin, Meghan Stacey, Susan McGrath-Champ and Rachel Wilson

The ‘education election’? Before heading to the polling booths this Saturday, we take stock of how the major political parties, and the newly formed Public Education Party, stack up over their policies and priorities for education.  It has been a difficult time for public education over the last decade. Research has documented that the teaching

How to fix the teacher shortage

By Chandravadan Shah, Paul Richardson and Helen Watt

Teacher shortages are not a new thing. It is difficult to envisage a time when every school in

Why restoring trust in teaching now could fix the teacher shortage

By Babak Dadvand

Burnout is blamed for an exodus of teachers contributing to ‘a teacher shortage crisis’ in Australian schools. The

Just like us: why Australian students need teachers from everywhere

By Rachael Jacobs and Rachael Dwyer

Our dwindling teacher workforce makes headlines every week and new Education Minister Jason Clare calls it “a massive

Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them

By Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Jessica Gerrard, Anna Hogan and Jessica Holloway

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”)

By Jo Lampert

I almost never post on Twitter. Sometimes I like other people’s posts, but I’ve been a reluctant Twitter

Desperate and despondent: the truth about the way we treat immigrant teachers

By Nashid Nigar, Alex Kostogriz and Mahtab Janfada

In the battle to fix teacher shortages, much is made of recruiting teachers internationally. Three researchers reveal what

Here’s what a brave new minister for education could do right away to fix the horrific teacher shortage

By Debra Hayes

The new Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare announced last Friday he would convene a Teacher Workforce Roundtable