Greater recognition of educators in Order of Australia medals and a national campaign to raise the status and value of teachers are among the proposed strategies in the government's plan to fix the education sector. A draft copy of the ...

The NSW Teachers Federation has been fined $60,000 for "plainly and deliberately" striking while restrained to take industrial action.  On November 29, 2021, the Industrial Relations Commission had issued an order prohibiting the federation and its members from taking industrial ...

While the government has been trying to tackle teacher shortages via a workforce plan, an expert has argued respecting educators is key to reducing attrition rates and engaging more people in the profession. In most cases, teachers feel respected by ...

Teachers are demoralised because of the hours of “pointless busy work” they‘re expected to perform each week, an inquiry has heard. A team of academics, which has looked into the problem of teacher shortages in Australia, presented their research findings ...

Australia’s education ministers will draft a national plan by December to address chronic teacher shortages and rife dissatisfaction plaguing the teaching profession.  A roundtable meeting held last Friday saw key stakeholders, including unions, academics and principals, meet with the nation’s ...

Australia's federal and state education ministers, along with union leaders, principals and teachers, are due to meet today in Canberra to brainstorm ways to tackle nationwide teacher shortages. The roundtable marks the first time the nation's education leaders have met ...

Ahead of the Ministerial Teacher Workforce Roundtable (to be held on Friday August 12), one expert has urged the participants to address educators' pay and working conditions as a priority.  Education ministers, teachers, principals and education experts will come together ...

University-educated workers could be offered pay rises of up to 40 per cent to teach in schools as part of plans led by the federal government to attract more people into education. This week, the Australian Institute for Teaching and ...

A recent report by Deakin University shows that the use of out-of-field teachers to reduce the current shortages can lower student’s results, sparking concern among students worried about their education and future career outcomes. "When history teachers take over science ...

The teacher shortage crisis has been taking its toll on the sector, pushing educators to strike for better pay and working conditions while more than 50,000 teachers are expected to leave the profession in the coming years. Blended learning could ...