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Birmingham pushes for STEM teacher workforce strategy
Every high school in Australia will have at least one specialist STEM teacher if a workforce strategy floated by Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham was to come to fruition and meet its goals.
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Attracting career changers into the teaching profession is one solution. If we can somehow incentivize industry professionals from STEM backgrounds to join (and stay in) teaching when they are considering a career change, that will help fill the teacher shortage and bring in highly experienced individuals to the classroom. The need to retain quality teachers is equally important.