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Fiona Longmuir, Lecturer - Educational Leadership, Monash University

Jason Clare has a draft plan to fix the teacher shortage. What needs to stay and what should change?

Education Minister Jason Clare has released a draft plan to address what he calls an “unprecedented” teacher shortage in Australia.

As he said on Thursday, “there is a shortage of them right across the country”. For example, federal education department modelling shows there will be a high school teacher shortfall of about 4,000 by 2025.

The plan has been brewing since a meeting between Clare and his state and territory counterparts in August.

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