$1.3million mentoring program to keep new teachers in the classroom
Source. Western Australia. Minister for Education and Training. Media Release
"First year teachers will be targeted by a new $1.3million mentoring program, designed to retain science and mathematics teachers in Western Australia’s public and private schools. Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan announced the new pilot mentoring program, while opening a new $3million science teacher training facility at The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Learning Technology. Mr McGowan said negotiations to make the new facility available to science and maths teachers involved in the mentoring program were in their final stages."