Universities’ stranglehold on new teachers undermining reform
Critically important reforms to improving the academic standing of Australian schoolchildren are being hamstrung by universities’ stranglehold on how and what the future teacher workforce is taught.
The report, Starting Off on the Wrong Foot, from the Centre for Independent Studies, says university education faculties have resisted reform to the content and structure of their courses, leaving future teachers under-prepared and overwhelmed – or what it calls the ‘novice penalty’ – when they finally enter the classroom.
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