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Number of applicants down?

SlinkyL · 2018-06-01 10:01:35

For principals on the forum...as someone applying for jobs for my 6th consecutive year of fixed term contracts, have you noticed a reduction in no of applicants this year? Is the teacher shortage a real thing or just a problem when trying to get short term subs? Science, biology teacher here... have taught maths also but…

01-06-2018 11:01AM

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SlinkyL

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For principals on the forum...as someone applying for jobs for my 6th consecutive year of fixed term contracts, have you noticed a reduction in no of applicants this year? Is the teacher shortage a real thing or just a problem when trying to get short term subs? Science, biology teacher here... have taught maths also but not registered... would be very interested to hear...

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#2 01-06-2018 05:57PM

TheDriver

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Depends on subjects, overall about the same as recent years. Nothing like 5 years ago

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