A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis. Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in the OECD.

A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis**.** Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in the OECD.

The shortage is most acute in public schools, disadvantaged schools and regional town schools Despite the scale of the problem**,** progress in reducing it has been glacial. Governments have largely ignored the key causes of low teacher pay, high workloads, too much administrative work, lack of support and safety at work.

  • arran 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Be wary of any article talking about shortages as it’s a supply demand curve and the demand is the one posting. Also in Vic for people with a degree they can get a 1-year teaching diploma rather than a 4 year education degree, so the supply could quickly scale up if it was an actual attractive option, teaching isn’t exactly a occupation where people don’t know it exists so it has a lot of visibility.

    • Joshi@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Be wary of people applying Econ 101 concepts where they aren’t applicable.

      Education is a public good and the market will never provide adequate supply. It requires public policy to provide it. You’re right that if public schools made teaching an attractive option there would be more teachers, but then that’s the point of the article.