Equity issue for students

The current staffing system based on transfers provides equity...Dianne Pyne.

If schools in difficult to staff areas were reliant on ads to get people, they would not have qualified teachers in front of the kids each day, Chifley College � Mount Druitt campus Fed Rep Dianne Pyne said. �It becomes an equity issue for schools,� she said.

�The transfer system is brilliant � to have incentive transfers to ensure difficult to staff schools have teachers in them.

�Without the transfer system I don�t know how our school would be staffed because people don�t put their hand up to come here.

�We�re a 4-point school which encourages people to come here,� she added.

Ms Pyne explained that last year the school couldn�t get anyone to fill a particular position and �going to interview didn�t help� with the quality of applicant required. She said the Department had appointed someone into the position for this year.

�The interview system did not work for us and was time consuming.

�Only if you are lucky do you get a suitable candidate,� she added.

�With the transfer system you usually get someone appointed which saves you the time,� Ms Pyne said.

�If we were just to use the interview system, on the North Shore they would get plenty of people applying, but not at our school and at schools in the country � you just don�t get the number of people putting their hands up.�

Ms Pyne said the current staffing system also provided for nominated transfers that ensure teachers have a job when numbers drop.

�I could not image teaching in a different system � we�ve always had security of tenure.

�Teachers like to have mobility and security at the same time,� she also said.

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