A parliamentary question regarding the cost and number of teachers benefiting from additional non-contact hours for first-year teachers in WA schools between 2009-2012. The Department of Education could not provide the exact number of teachers.

AnsweredQoN 465Legislative Council
Asked
27 June 2012
Portfolio
Education

QuestionView source ↗

SCHOOLTEACHERS — EXTRA NON-CONTACT
HOURS
465. Hon MATT BENSON-LIDHOLM to the minister representing
the Minister for Education:
I refer to the additional allocation to schools for the
provision of additional non-contact hours for teachers in their first year of
teaching.
(1) What was
the total cost to provide this additional allocation to WA schools in —
(a) 2009–10;
(b) 2010–11;
and
(c) 2011–12 to date?
(2) For how
many teachers was this additional allocation provided in —
(a) 2009–10;
(b) 2010–11;
and
(c) 2011–12 to date?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for some notice of this
question. I am advised by the Department of Education as follows —
(1) (a)–(c)
The information can be provided in school years as follows —
In 2009, $2 957 636; in 2010, $3 114
671; in 2011, $3 339 765; and in 2012, to date, $2 260 700.
(2) (a)–(c)
The Department of Education is unable to provide the exact number of teachers
as the information is collected at a school level for the purpose of payments
to schools. It is not maintained at an individual teacher level.

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