A chronic national shortage of school teachers could be solved almost immediately if sky-high attrition rates from teacher education university courses of one in every two students were curtailed, says a leading education expert.
High drop out rates are exacerbated further by the number of university students who complete their course but fail to pass a mandatory literacy and numeracy test, leaving fewer than half the students who start a degree to complete it and enter the workforce.
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