Teacher Demand
Victorian government schools particularly need qualified teachers in a range of curriculum areas who are willing to teach where vacancies exist. Over the next few years, it is projected that there will be an annual requirement for an average of approximately 2,000 new teachers.
While secondary teachers are needed over the whole range of school subjects, the areas that have the greatest opportunities for employment include; Mathematics, Science, Languages Other Than English especially Indonesian, Italian, French, Japanese and German), Physical Education and Technology subjects.
Special education teachers and primary teachers with qualifications in Languages Other Than English, physical education or music are much in demand.
These recruitment requirements are often additional to those required to cover attrition and replacement.
Further Information
- 2008 Teacher Supply and Demand Report for Victoria (PDF - 3.0Mb) - Commissioned by the Teacher Supply and Demand Reference Group, the 2008 report focuses on the composition of Government and Catholic teaching service in terms of gender, age, employment type and attrition; the outlook for the teaching service over the next four years; the historic trends in pre-service teacher education and the outlook for the next four years.
In preparing the report data was collated from the Catholic Education Office, Victorian Institute of Teaching and the then Department of Education. Data available on 'other' non Government sector representing the Independent sector has been sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. - Teacher Supply and Demand Initiatives - Details major initiatives to assist principals recruit staff and increase the supply of teachers particularly to rural and outer metropolitan areas.