Country schools have long faced challenges recruiting and retaining staff, an issue that is only getting more difficult in the ...
‘An expensive endeavour’: How can more teachers be convinced to move to the country?
As country schools grapple with a dire teacher shortage, New South Wales researchers have turned their attention to evaluating a range of different incentive programs to convince teachers to move to the bush.
Professors Paul Burke and John Buchanan of the University of Technology Sydney recently completed a study comparing different incentive programs used to attract teachers to the country.