Victoria has launched a suite of incentives to keep the state's best teachers in some of its toughest schools, including a $50,000 lure to draw educators to "hard-to-staff" positions and schools.
The implementation of the ‘biggest investment in their educational workforce in its history’ has been prompted due to a lack of teachers in rural and regional areas.
However, branch president of Australian Education Union Victoria, Meredith Peach, expressed concern that the package would not solve the problem, saying that the reason for the lack of application for executive positions is the workload rather than the pay.