❓ Mr. Woodhams asks the Premier to guarantee all teaching positions at John Willcock College and Geraldton Senior College will be filled by the start of the next school year. The Premier responds that current vacancies are filled and future ones will be handled normally, while also highlighting past teacher shortages.
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TEACHING STAFF - GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
I ask a supplementary question. Will the Premier guarantee to staff and students at John Willcock College and also Geraldton Senior College that all positions will be filled by the commencement of the school year next year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I ask a supplementary question. Will the Premier guarantee to staff and students at John Willcock College and also Geraldton Senior College that all positions will be filled by the commencement of the school year next year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I am not the Minister for Education and Training, but I have been provided with the answer. The answer states in part - in case the member was not able to hear what I said - “Currently all vacancies identified by the school for 2007 have been filled by suitably qualified teachers.” It goes on to say that future vacancies that may arise will be filled in the normal way. I would like to point something out. The member may have a shorter memory than I give him credit for. In the first year that I became education minister, or it may have been the year before that, there were about 100 vacancies - that was not just because no suitable staff were available, but because there were no staff - in schools around Western Australia. That was the legacy that we inherited. There were 100 classes with no teacher out the front. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am not the Minister for Education and Training, but I have been provided with the answer. The answer states in part - in case the member was not able to hear what I said - “Currently all vacancies identified by the school for 2007 have been filled by suitably qualified teachers.” It goes on to say that future vacancies that may arise will be filled in the normal way. I would like to point something out. The member may have a shorter memory than I give him credit for. In the first year that I became education minister, or it may have been the year before that, there were about 100 vacancies - that was not just because no suitable staff were available, but because there were no staff - in schools around Western Australia. That was the legacy that we inherited. There were 100 classes with no teacher out the front. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
I am not the Minister for Education and Training, but I have been provided with the answer. The answer states in part - in case the member was not able to hear what I said - “Currently all vacancies identified by the school for 2007 have been filled by suitably qualified teachers.” It goes on to say that future vacancies that may arise will be filled in the normal way. I would like to point something out. The member may have a shorter memory than I give him credit for. In the first year that I became education minister, or it may have been the year before that, there were about 100 vacancies - that was not just because no suitable staff were available, but because there were no staff - in schools around Western Australia. That was the legacy that we inherited. There were 100 classes with no teacher out the front. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am not the Minister for Education and Training, but I have been provided with the answer. The answer states in part - in case the member was not able to hear what I said - “Currently all vacancies identified by the school for 2007 have been filled by suitably qualified teachers.” It goes on to say that future vacancies that may arise will be filled in the normal way. I would like to point something out. The member may have a shorter memory than I give him credit for. In the first year that I became education minister, or it may have been the year before that, there were about 100 vacancies - that was not just because no suitable staff were available, but because there were no staff - in schools around Western Australia. That was the legacy that we inherited. There were 100 classes with no teacher out the front. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
I am not the Minister for Education and Training, but I have been provided with the answer. The answer states in part - in case the member was not able to hear what I said - “Currently all vacancies identified by the school for 2007 have been filled by suitably qualified teachers.” It goes on to say that future vacancies that may arise will be filled in the normal way. I would like to point something out. The member may have a shorter memory than I give him credit for. In the first year that I became education minister, or it may have been the year before that, there were about 100 vacancies - that was not just because no suitable staff were available, but because there were no staff - in schools around Western Australia. That was the legacy that we inherited. There were 100 classes with no teacher out the front. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr C.J. Barnett : That is not true. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is true, and the member knows it. Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr C.J. Barnett : That is unlawful. You cannot have a class without a teacher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : After a few days, some bodies were out the front of some classes, but they were not teachers. Every year across Western Australia there is a sprinkling of vacancies in the first week of the school year. Most of those vacancies are invariably filled during that first week. I have every confidence - Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Dr K.D. Hames interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call to order the member for Dawesville for the first time. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Dawesville would not know, because he has never done the job. I can tell the member this. We embarked upon a program to recruit more people into the teaching profession. That program was so successful that by 2003 or 2004 there were about 1 300 graduates from teaching programs in Western Australia, but we could place in the public system only about 400 of those teachers.
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