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What Attracts Teachers to Rural and Remote Schools? Incentivising Teachers' Employment Choices in New South Wales
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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
Revisiting the Schoolhouse: A Literature Review on Staffing Rural, Remote and Isolated Schools in Australia 2004-2016
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Downes, Natalie; Roberts, Philip – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2018
The staffing of rural, remote and isolated schools remains a significant issue of concern in Australian education. In this paper we provide a comprehensive account of the Australian research related to the staffing of rural schools post 2004. The review identifies the overarching themes of the opportunities and challenges of staffing rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Preservice Teacher Education
Understanding Teacher Attraction and Retention Drivers: Addressing Teacher Shortages
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Ashiedu, Jennifer A.; Scott-Ladd, Brenda D. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The attraction and retention of teachers is a problem faced by schools worldwide and possibly more so in the public sector. One possible solution to this problem is likely to be better targeting of attraction and retention drivers of value to teachers. This paper presents the findings from a qualitative study conducted in Australia. The study used…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Incentives, Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries
Supporting Beginning Rural Teachers: Lessons from Successful Schools
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White, Simone; Lock, Graeme; Hastings, Wendy; Reid, Jo-Anne; Green, Bill; Cooper, Maxine – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Across Australia and internationally, the vexed problem of staffing rural school remains a major issue affecting the educational outcomes of many rural students and their families. TERRAnova, (New Ground in Teacher Education for Rural and Regional Australia), is the name of a large Australian Research Council funded (2008-2010) project involving:…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
Transfer Systems: The Opinions of Queensland Teachers. Evaluation Series.
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Tainton, Barry E.; Turner, Terence J. – 1976
Data from research conducted by the Department of Education, Queensland, shows that over 90% of the state's teachers support an entirely voluntary system of transfer, 68% favor obligatory transfer for positions that cannot be filled by volunteers, and 45% support a completely compulsory scheme of teacher transfer. A sample of 957 teachers were…
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries, Incentives
Australia's Teachers. An Agenda for the Next Decade.
National Board of Employment, Education, and Training, Canberra (Australia). Schools Council. – 1990
This publication links the factors affecting the quality of the individual teacher to the broader set of conditions most likely to promote and sustain the quality of teaching generally. Chapter 1 provides a brief survey of some of the main currents in educational policy and practice of the past 25 years, including the cost of education and the way…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education