Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:26:21 GMT

Survey to provide snapshot of teaching workforce. Information gathered from a new survey of staff in Australian schools will provide a much-needed demographic picture of the Australian teaching workforce and highlight specific workforce issues. The Staff in Australia’s Schools Survey is being conducted by ACER with the assistance of the Australian College of Educators (ACE). Over 20,000 teachers and school leaders from more than 2000 government, Catholic and independent schools across Australia are being randomly selected and invited to take part. The survey aims to describe more fully the teacher workforce by gathering information such as gender, age, school sector and level, qualifications and work roles. Attitudinal information regarding career plans, working conditions and attraction to leadership roles will also be collected to support future workforce planning. [School Education Headlines]