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We have been a fan of this site for ages now but have never posted before. Just looking for a little help and guidance i guess, hoping someone can help......
We are going to Perth in March for our first ever visit, sooooo excited!!
I am a teacher and have been for over ten years. I guess my main worry is, are there many jobs out there for teachers? we have been led to believe that there are but my wife is very much in need of some reassurance at the moment.
If anyone out there has any advice on teaching/teaching jobs and is willing to share their experience's, good or bad, with us then we would be sincerely grateful.
Hi there,I am a teacher and am mid way though the wait for 175 visa. Western Australia, I am told, has incentives for UK teachers (check the site The Department of Education and Training - Teaching WA ) mainly for secondary. Primary teaching seems to be similar to the UK - not easy to get a job but not impossible. I am hoping to go and supply for a while until I find a perminant job. i am a bit worried too but it wont put me off. Enjoy the trip in March, maybe you could have a look around a few schools while you are there?
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From what I have heard and read in the media there is very much a shortage of teachers here in WA.
Check the local newspapers on line and you will be able to find this and hopefully reassure yoursleves.
Good luck !
Ignore the above advice. Less than 10% of teaching jobs are advertised in local papers. If you judge the market by what is in the paper, you will be terribly misled.
In WA all employment in the state high schools is done through the Education Dept of WA, if you want a job, contact them once you've got your teaching credentials accepted. Yes there is a shortage of teachers in the state, there is quite a number of schools with less teachers than they require. Recent government incentives to give tax free allowances or cash incentives to get ex-teachers or retired teachers to return to the workforce have failed.
There is a shortage of primary school teachers - but not to the same extent as high school teachers.
Having given the good news, now here's the bad. Most of the vacancies are outside of the metropolitan area, indeed most of them are in fairly remote places. If you're lucky places like Karratha, Esperance or Geraldton; if you're unlucky places like Leonora, Trayning or Wylkatchem.
For many West Australians, going to the isolation of the WA bush is a culture shock that they just can't cope with. The isolation, the lack of amenities, the absence of doctors, supermarkets, cinemas, pubs, anything "cultural" except drinking at the local footy club; these things can make it very hard to settle in. For Europeans that have even less idea what isolation means, the WA bush can be a heartbreaking experience. The 'failure' rates are very high. Sure, some love it, but many many more struggle or worse still, return dejected to the UK.
Excuse me ?! Not so hasty there in rejecting others advice.
Your assumption I was referring to advertised vacancies in the local papers is incorrect.
I was in fact referring to checking the papers on line with respect to recent articles about the teacher shortage. By local papers I mean The West Australian and to a lesser degree the eastern states papers.
I was in no way meaning to check for positions vacant.
What Bullcreek Bob has said I am sure is true and it applies to other states as well. There is a shortage but not for sought after suburban areas. The shortages are out there in remote and rural areas which is probably fine for the teacher in the family but if there is another wage earner then employment opportunities may be limited.
You are always going to have the edge if you have some sort of specialization. If you have a good special ed training for example, your skills will generally be valued and the vacancies pretty much across the country seem to be for HS maths and science teachers.
Good luck but dont be surprised if it is really hard to find something in the "nice" areas.
not sure about Perth but i am in Victoria and to have a teachers job (not supply) you have to have your skills assessed again by the Victorian education people to gain a licence. I am in the process of filling out more forms and gathering together the same evidence as back in england- birth cert/ transcripts etc and they need to be certified again by someone in australia! there are plenty of secondary jobs going and early years here, but not so many primary. they do come up and of course there are plenty of private schools which often dont advertise in the usual places. sometimes its a good idea to drive around and leave your CV at various places.
Im sure you will find something, everyone i speak to assures me there are loads of jobs available.
Good luck and enjoy yourselves- not long now
if you're unlucky places like Leonora, Trayning or Wylkatchem.
For many West Australians, going to the isolation of the WA bush is a culture shock that they just can't cope with. The isolation, the lack of amenities, the absence of doctors, supermarkets, cinemas, pubs, anything "cultural" except drinking at the local footy club; these things can make it very hard to settle in. For Europeans that have even less idea what isolation means, the WA bush can be a heartbreaking experience. The 'failure' rates are very high. Sure, some love it, but many many more struggle or worse still, return dejected to the UK.
Mmm. News to me that Wylie has a lack of doctors.
the medical care there is second to none, with a small hospital and a great GP.
Soon to be a British GP.
There is a brand new surgery and well staffed hospital
However, having visited the school at Wyalkatchem, and met the people, I would say that anyone would be incredibly lucky to enjoy such a fab community with such wonderful people.
I am excited that my kids will be attending a school (at Wyalkatchem)with such a dynamic principle, and the added bonus is that my kids will be leaving school with the oportunity to become pilots as it is soon to become a specialist aviation college.
Dont be so quick to judge the "remote" remote does not mean backwards, lacking or in any way less fulfilliing than living next to a burger bar on a sticky beach with sand in your sheets.
I currently live in an area that is plagued by tourists. Believe me, the joy of living in Wylie, where there are no tinsel and turkey coaches full of elderly folk taking photos of my washing line will be total freedom for me.
Wylie also has more sporting facilities in a tiny town than the whole of the Isle of Wight.
I have never been made to fell so welcome or wanted, My advice is dont prejudge and go and meet the people, look for yourself and decide what you really want.
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