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Jack Gramenz

Retirees tempted back to teach, mentor graduates

Some 150 retired teachers are returning to the classroom in NSW lured by better pay and less admin. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Students are not the only ones learning in NSW classrooms as early career teachers benefit from mentoring by recently retired colleagues lured back with promises of better pay and less work.

More than 260 teachers have expressed an interest in returning to work since the NSW Department of Education in November began contacting staff who had quit in the past five years.

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