Page 372 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 February 2010

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(9) Noting that the CIT Teacher Qualifications and Experience Policy states that “All permanent and temporary teaching staff will have, or be expected to gain within twelve months from their date of commencement, one of the following education qualifications”, where the qualifications are the Cert IV TAA or one of the qualifications considered equivalent to the Cert IV TAA as listed in the AQTF 2007 Essential Standards for Registration, what happens to CIT teachers who fail to gain a qualification satisfying AQTF 2007 requirements within the prescribed 12 month period.

Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1)

(i)

Teaching

(ii)

Vocational

(iii)

Degree

(iv)

Year 12

(v)

Year 10

(a) Permanent

169

154

11

3

1

(b)Temporary

84

76

4

1

3

(c)Casual Band 1

293

278

7

5

3

(2) CIT meets all the requirements of the AQTF 2007 Essential Standards for Registration in relation to its teaching workforce. It is not cost effective to identify all the specific qualifications of each of its teachers, as this would require scanning more than 550 records.

(3)

(i)Cert IV in TAA

(ii)

Equiv qual

(iii)

Dip Ed

(iv)

Bach of Ed

(v)

No qual

Other

(a)Permanent

0

0

3

0

0

0

(b)Temporary

0

0

0

0

0

1

(c)Casual Band 1

1

0

5

0

0

0

(4)

(i) Cert

IV in

TAA

(ii)

Equiv qual

(iii)

Dip Ed

(iv)

Bach of Ed

(v)

No qual

(a)Permanent

0

0

1

0

0

(b)Temporary

2

0

2

1

0

(c)Casual Band 1

2

0

1

0

0

(5) (a) Permanent teachers in Secondary schools – 1162 (headcount).

(b) Temporary contract teachers in Secondary schools – 208 (headcount).

(c) Casual Band 1(Classroom Teachers) employed in Secondary Schools – 218 (headcount).

(i) (ii) (iii) All Teachers employed by the ACT Department of Education hold formal teaching qualifications. To provide details about teachers’ qualifications is not cost effective as the information is stored in hard copy on 3000 individual personnel files.


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