The Greens have called on the nation\u2019s education ministers to tackle the root causes of the teacher shortage crisis, after today\u2019s roundtable failed to produce a credible plan for real reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s great that teachers had a seat at the table at today\u2019s Education Ministers Meeting. Unfortunately it doesn\u2019t appear that the ministers were really paying attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite listening to stories of 65-hour work weeks and crippling workloads, we heard almost nothing about that in the media conference that followed the meeting. Instead, the conversation turned quickly to recruitment and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you want to stop the exodus of teachers from the profession and attract more people into it, governments have to address pay and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo tackle teacher workloads, the system needs to be resourced properly. Right now, nearly every public school in the country is receiving less than 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard, which is the minimum funding level required for students to achieve the minimum standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMeanwhile, funding to private schools has increased at five times the rate of funding to public schools, and Australia has one of the greatest education funding inequality gaps in the OECD. This needs to be reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSimilarly teacher salaries have gone backwards when compared to other professions over the last 30 years. Creating higher pay points for a select few won\u2019t address this problem. We need a competitive pay structure for the profession as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrustratingly, none of this is new. Teachers and their unions have been raising these issues for over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe December roadmap must include strategies to immediately address under-resourcing of schools and pay and conditions for all teachers. Otherwise it\u2019s still just talk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have called on the nation\u2019s education ministers to tackle the root causes of the teacher shortage crisis, after today\u2019s roundtable failed to produce a credible plan for real reform. Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said: \u201cIt\u2019s great that teachers had a seat at the table at today\u2019s Education Ministers Meeting. Unfortunately … Continue reading “Still no credible plan to tackle teacher shortage crisis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17734,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions\/17734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}