Australia is spending hundreds of millions to persuade New Zealand teachers to move
Australia is spending hundreds of millions to persuade New Zealand teachers to move
They're being drawn across the ditch by higher wages, better conditions and more teaching support.
And yet the government won't even give them a pay rise to match inflation. Shameful.
I get a couple ads from the Victoria government asking me to move to Mebourne if I'm an ECE teacher every time I listen to a podcast now.
I understand what and why but it feels really scummy for them to be stealing our teachers
Meh, it's the free market baby! If we want to keep them, we should pay them accordingly.
I don't like it either but NZ does it too. Eg. We're poaching Fiji's bus drivers.
In the end we're never going compete with what Australia can offer financially, but NZ never used to need to. It used to be that many people would accept a lower salary and often even migrate to NZ because it offered a better way of life than so many other places, often including Australia, but presently its questionable of that's still true for a lot of people. That's especially the case if you're in a front line profession like teaching or nursing where the nature of the job means you constantly have to face consequences from increasing breakdowns in other parts of society.
God I wish our government would actually act... A 20k raise is crazy, especially when they're so less isolated
We can't afford that, they can.
It's as simple as that.
We should send teachers over there to teach aussies the wrong stuff. Then we become the smarter nation and boom we rich.