Tasmania’s Education Minister’s expressed a determination to ensure all kids attend schools fit for the times.
Jo Palmer’s driving a $188 million School Building Blitz including the newly completed Brighton High School.
The Minister’s also busy with modernising existing schools.
“We will keep making sure that we have schools that are up to scratch, I know some of these schools are old, I’ve been to Trevallyn Primary School where I was a student and some of the classrooms there are the same when I was there.”
Meantime, the Minister reckons Tasmania’s not alone when it comes to a school teacher shortage, outlining how insufficient teachers on the mainland means casting the recruitment net out to New Zealand and other countries.
Jo Palmer remains hopeful $3.5 million in incentives will keep drawing teaching talent.
“Just recently I was on the West Coast of Tasmania, I met the most amazing young teacher who moved here with his partner and their little child from Sydney, doing incredible things with the school, so we keep investing in that.”
