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Burke, Paul F.; Buchanan, John – Australian Journal of Education, 2022
Staffing rural and regional schools remains an intractable problem. This study identifies effective incentives for attracting teachers to difficult-to-staff rural and remote schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Compared to their urban counterparts, students in these schools are disadvantaged by teacher staff shortages, inexperience and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Regional Schools, Teacher Shortage
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Buchanan, John; Prescott, Anne; Schuck, Sandra; Aubusson, Peter; Burke, Paul; Louviere, Jordan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
The provision and maintenance of quality teachers is a matter of priority for the profession. Moreover, teacher attrition is costly to the profession, to the community and to those teachers who leave feeling disillusioned. There is a need to investigate the experiences of early career teachers to consider how these issues contribute to decisions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
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Buchanan, John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention. Less is known of ex-teachers' circumstances: salary, workload, working conditions, "job prestige". For this study, telephone interviews were used to ask 21 ex-teachers about their journey from teaching, and views on their current working conditions by comparison. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions