Erica Stanford: Education Minister on the Government's efforts to attract more teachers
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
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The Education Minister says several factors are at play in making teaching an increasingly attractive career option.
New figures released to Newstalk ZB show the teaching workforce increased 2.5% last year – the largest annual increase since records began back in 2009.
First-time enrolments in teaching courses are also up, 6.3%.
Erica Stanford told Mike Hosking the Government's doing several things to attract and retain teachers.
She says that includes good resources, world-leading professional learning and development, on-site training programmes, and paying teacher fees.
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