thanks for the tips i will look into it. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 4:44 PM, Timmer-Arends <<a href="mailto:timmer@melbpc.org.au">timmer@melbpc.org.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
...and the other day a group of us we were told by what seems an authorative<br>source about 4 maths/physics teachers attracted to WA from Vic who took up<br>positions in Port Headland, only to take up work as cleaners in the local
<br>mine for over $100000pa.!<br><br>Regards<br>Robert T-A<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Alex Hopkins" <<a href="mailto:a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au">a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au
</a>><br>To: "'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'"<br><<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:13 PM<br>Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!
<br><br><br>> Hi Kent,<br>><br>><br>><br>> Yeah, they (ie the media and others) seem to be talking up the<br>> opportunities<br>> available in WA. But I was speaking to a friend last night who had just
<br>> returned from a brief study trip to WA, where he was doing research into<br>> the<br>> education system, and he painted a picture a little less rosy. Salaries<br>> of<br>> graduates are higher than elsewhere, but at the higher end salaries are
<br>> less<br>> than equivalents here, so that the range is compressed in comparison to<br>> other states. Then, it is difficult to get on-going employment, as<br>> opposed<br>> to contract employment, in Perth in the state system; the reasoning is to
<br>> get teachers out into the countryside and to give those who are in the<br>> remote parts some chance of getting to Perth. WA is a pretty big state,<br>> you<br>> know. The effect is stress for teachers, the inability of principals to
<br>> plan ('cos they don't know who they'll have from one year to the next),<br>> and<br>> parents wanting to send their kids to private schools where there is more<br>> stability of staff. But what really blew apart the WA dream for me was
<br>> when<br>> he said that in the outback, it isn't just the land surveyor, it's the<br>> bloke<br>> who carries the land surveyor's theodolite and the cleaner who are on<br>> higher<br>> salaries than the teacher. I've also heard from a couple of other
<br>> different<br>> friends that the cost of accommodation is pretty horrific. So I'm starting<br>> to question that the W.A. dream of $20,000 above Victorian teachers wages<br>> is<br>> as fair dinkum as recent newspaper reports have suggested.
<br>><br>><br>><br>> -Alex Hopkins<br>><br>> Bayside Christian College<br>><br>><br>><br>> _____<br>><br>> From: <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au
</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]<br>> On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge<br>> Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 1:45 PM<br>> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
<br>> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!<br>><br>><br>><br>> I have it from a reliable source that a ship load of maths jobs are around<br>> in WA. Just about to complete my course and a student over there reckons
<br>> its<br>> a vacant block where maths teachers are concerned (a big shortage!).<br>><br>> Just a thought.... oh, BTW, they are about to cop a 7% wage rise..COP THAT<br>> BRUMBY! Hint Hint...<br>><br>
> KB.<br>><br>> Kent Beveridge,<br>><br>> I.T. co-ordinator<br>><br>> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College<br>><br>> Horsham<br>><br>> email.. <a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au
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