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Teacher Sia Goutzas wanted to send her three girls to a co-ed school. Single-sex education may have made sense, she says, when men became workers and women wives, but those days are over.
“It’s insane that we are still segregating genders,” she says. “I don’t know why we can’t send girls to Sydney Grammar, or boys to St Catherine’s. For me it should be a natural part of schooling,” Goutzas says.
But in the part of the eastern suburbs where Goutzas lives, there are few co-ed options; even the public schools are single sex. So, in the end, her daughters went to a Catholic girls’ school.
NSW public schools need 20 per cent more teachers by 2031: report
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The NSW public school system needs to recruit at least 11,000 full-time teachers over the next 10 years to meet student enrolment growth but is already struggling with shortages, especially in the bush and in key subjects such as maths.
If the present student-teacher ratio is maintained and enrolment meets predictions of 17 per cent growth to around 950,000 in 2031, forecasting by education economist Adam Rorris estimates the workforce will need to grow from 54,500 to 65,500 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers, based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data.
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Introducing Kate Gainsford, the new chair of the Secondary Principals Council.
The shared values of teachers and principals form the backbone of the Secondary Principals Council, says new chair Kate Gainsford.
Kate will be a familiar face to many in PPTA Te Wehengarua from her stint as president from 2009 to 2011 and as senior vice president following that.
Born and bred in Rotorua, Kate attended Rotorua Girls’ High School. She has been deputy principal of Porirua College and Wellington East Girls’ College and is now in her tenth year as principal of Aotea College; a co-educational, state secondary school for years 9-13 in Porirua. Kate is also the women’s principal representative on SPC.
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