thanks for the tips i will look into it. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 4:44 PM, Timmer-Arends &lt;<a href="mailto:timmer@melbpc.org.au">timmer@melbpc.org.au</a>&gt; 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: &quot;Alex Hopkins&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au">a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au
</a>&gt;<br>To: &quot;&#39;Year 12 IT Applications Teachers&#39; Mailing List&#39;&quot;<br>&lt;<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>&gt;<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:13 PM<br>Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!
<br><br><br>&gt; Hi Kent,<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Yeah, they (ie the media and others) seem to be talking up the<br>&gt; opportunities<br>&gt; available in WA. &nbsp;But I was speaking to a friend last night who had just
<br>&gt; returned from a brief study trip to WA, where he was doing research into<br>&gt; the<br>&gt; education system, and he painted a picture a little less rosy. &nbsp;Salaries<br>&gt; of<br>&gt; graduates are higher than elsewhere, but at the higher end salaries are
<br>&gt; less<br>&gt; than equivalents here, so that the range is compressed in comparison to<br>&gt; other states. &nbsp;Then, it is difficult to get on-going employment, as<br>&gt; opposed<br>&gt; to contract employment, in Perth in the state system; the reasoning is to
<br>&gt; get teachers out into the countryside and to give those who are in the<br>&gt; remote parts some chance of getting to Perth. &nbsp;WA is a pretty big state,<br>&gt; you<br>&gt; know. &nbsp;The effect is stress for teachers, the inability of principals to
<br>&gt; plan (&#39;cos they don&#39;t know who they&#39;ll have from one year to the next),<br>&gt; and<br>&gt; parents wanting to send their kids to private schools where there is more<br>&gt; stability of staff. &nbsp;But what really blew apart the WA dream for me was
<br>&gt; when<br>&gt; he said that in the outback, it isn&#39;t just the land surveyor, it&#39;s the<br>&gt; bloke<br>&gt; who carries the land surveyor&#39;s theodolite and the cleaner who are on<br>&gt; higher<br>&gt; salaries than the teacher. &nbsp;I&#39;ve also heard from a couple of other
<br>&gt; different<br>&gt; friends that the cost of accommodation is pretty horrific. So I&#39;m starting<br>&gt; to question that the W.A. dream of $20,000 above Victorian teachers wages<br>&gt; is<br>&gt; as fair dinkum as recent newspaper reports have suggested.
<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; -Alex Hopkins<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Bayside Christian College<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; &nbsp;_____<br>&gt;<br>&gt; From: <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au
</a><br>&gt; [mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]<br>&gt; On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge<br>&gt; Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 1:45 PM<br>&gt; To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers&#39; Mailing List
<br>&gt; Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I have it from a reliable source that a ship load of maths jobs are around<br>&gt; in WA. Just about to complete my course and a student over there reckons
<br>&gt; its<br>&gt; a vacant block where maths teachers are concerned (a big shortage!).<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Just a thought.... oh, BTW, they are about to cop a 7% wage rise..COP THAT<br>&gt; BRUMBY! Hint Hint...<br>&gt;<br>
&gt; KB.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Kent Beveridge,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I.T. co-ordinator<br>&gt;<br>&gt; St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Horsham<br>&gt;<br>&gt; email.. <a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au
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