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Reforming the Labour Market for Australian Teachers

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Elizabeth Webster () (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne)
Mark Wooden () (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne)
Gary Marks () (The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER))

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This paper reviews the Australian evidence on the presence of chronic shortages of mathematics and science teachers and on the loss of excellent teachers from the classroom. Although there are no rigorous Australian studies on these issues, the best available evidence suggests that these problems exist. Overseas information suggests that chronic shortages occur because fewer science and mathematics graduates, compared to humanities and social science students, are attracted to the tasks involved in teaching children. Attraction is a matter of degree however, and higher earnings can be used in order to attract more of the scarce mathematics and science graduates, who also have an aptitude towards teaching, to a teaching career. Higher earnings can also be used to reduce attrition of the most able teachers from all of the discipline areas.

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Paper provided by Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne in its series Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series with number wp2004n28.

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