[Year 12 IT Apps] OT Maths jobs ahoy!

[andrew barry]

thanks for the tips i will look into it.

On Dec 11, 2007 4:44 PM, Timmer-Arends <timmer at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

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