[Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!

[Timmer-Arends]

...and the other day a group of us we were told by what seems an authorative 
source about 4 maths/physics teachers attracted to WA from Vic who took up 
positions in Port Headland, only to take up work as cleaners in the local 
mine for over $100000pa.!

Regards
Robert T-A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Hopkins" <a.hopkins at bcc.vic.edu.au>
To: "'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'" 
<itapps at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!


> Hi Kent,
>
>
>
> Yeah, they (ie the media and others) seem to be talking up the 
> opportunities
> available in WA.  But I was speaking to a friend last night who had just
> returned from a brief study trip to WA, where he was doing research into 
> the
> education system, and he painted a picture a little less rosy.  Salaries 
> of
> graduates are higher than elsewhere, but at the higher end salaries are 
> less
> than equivalents here, so that the range is compressed in comparison to
> other states.  Then, it is difficult to get on-going employment, as 
> opposed
> to contract employment, in Perth in the state system; the reasoning is to
> get teachers out into the countryside and to give those who are in the
> remote parts some chance of getting to Perth.  WA is a pretty big state, 
> you
> know.  The effect is stress for teachers, the inability of principals to
> plan ('cos they don't know who they'll have from one year to the next), 
> and
> parents wanting to send their kids to private schools where there is more
> stability of staff.  But what really blew apart the WA dream for me was 
> when
> he said that in the outback, it isn't just the land surveyor, it's the 
> bloke
> who carries the land surveyor's theodolite and the cleaner who are on 
> higher
> salaries than the teacher.  I've also heard from a couple of other 
> different
> friends that the cost of accommodation is pretty horrific. So I'm starting
> to question that the W.A. dream of $20,000 above Victorian teachers wages 
> is
> as fair dinkum as recent newspaper reports have suggested.
>
>
>
> -Alex Hopkins
>
> Bayside Christian College
>
>
>
>  _____
>
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 1:45 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!
>
>
>
> I have it from a reliable source that a ship load of maths jobs are around
> in WA. Just about to complete my course and a student over there reckons 
> its
> a vacant block where maths teachers are concerned (a big shortage!).
>
> Just a thought.... oh, BTW, they are about to cop a 7% wage rise..COP THAT
> BRUMBY! Hint Hint...
>
> KB.
>
> Kent Beveridge,
>
> I.T. co-ordinator
>
> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
>
> Horsham
>
> email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
>
>
>
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