❓ Question seeks details on a program promoting teaching careers in rural areas, including costs, targets, and incentives. The answer focuses on scholarships and targets secondary students, not graduates.
AnsweredQoN 1238Legislative Assembly
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(1) How many travelling advocates will be employed, and at what cost, in the current financial year to promote teaching as a career for secondary school students and graduates in rural and remote areas?
(2) What will be the cost of employing these travelling advocates?
(3) What is the target number of -
(a) secondary school students; and
(b) graduates,
anticipated to enter the teaching profession as a result of this program?
(4) What incentives, if any, will be offered to these secondary school students and graduates to enter the teaching profession?
(2) What will be the cost of employing these travelling advocates?
(3) What is the target number of -
(a) secondary school students; and
(b) graduates,
anticipated to enter the teaching profession as a result of this program?
(4) What incentives, if any, will be offered to these secondary school students and graduates to enter the teaching profession?
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Answered
4 December 2001
Responded by
Minister for Education
Response time
27 days
(b) graduates,
(3) (a) The target number of secondary students entering teacher training courses as a result of the Traveling Advocates Program is an increase of 5% or 55 students for the beginning of the 2003 academic year. (b) The Traveling Advocates will be targeting secondary students, not students already enrolled in university. (4) Twenty Government teaching scholarships are awarded annually to high achieving TEE students and 10 scholarships are offered to Aboriginal people gaining university entrance. The scholarships which cover HECS fees for four years of teacher training, are valued at approximately $12 000. The scholarships are advertised each year around August in the press, and by notices in School Matters, the Department's fortnightly publication. Scholarships are also advertised as letters to all principals and career advisers of schools with TEE students, both in government and non-government schools.
(b) The Traveling Advocates will be targeting secondary students, not students already enrolled in university.
(3) (a) The target number of secondary students entering teacher training courses as a result of the Traveling Advocates Program is an increase of 5% or 55 students for the beginning of the 2003 academic year. (b) The Traveling Advocates will be targeting secondary students, not students already enrolled in university. (4) Twenty Government teaching scholarships are awarded annually to high achieving TEE students and 10 scholarships are offered to Aboriginal people gaining university entrance. The scholarships which cover HECS fees for four years of teacher training, are valued at approximately $12 000. The scholarships are advertised each year around August in the press, and by notices in School Matters, the Department's fortnightly publication. Scholarships are also advertised as letters to all principals and career advisers of schools with TEE students, both in government and non-government schools.
(b) The Traveling Advocates will be targeting secondary students, not students already enrolled in university.
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