School leavers with low scoring ATAR should not be admitted in teaching degrees

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By David Gregory
Community contribution / November 5, 2019

I recently read an ABC news article about a secret report which disclosed the fact that universities were accepting people into teaching degrees with an ATAR so low that some were even close to zero! This is a phenomenal effort in laziness.

To get a good idea about what I’m talking, here a link to the article:

Students with lowest ATAR scores ...

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