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Toughen up teaching degree entry standards: Grattan
In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education.
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How about forcing teachers of STEM subjects to have a Bachelor’s degree specialising in their subject area? Together with higher financial rewards for teachers in these areas, this will certainly reverse the falling standards in science and mathematics. As an added benefit, university science departments may actually end up with enough students to make them viable…