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The NSW parliamentary inquiry into teacher shortages has been extended by the same parties who said the inquiry had got it “catastrophically wrong”.
The committee, chaired by One Nation MP Mark Latham, released its ‘Great teachers, Great schools: Lifting the Status of Teaching, Teacher quality and Teacher numbers in New South Wales’ report in November amid a barrage of criticism – including from those directly involved.
Upon releasing the report, Latham asserted that “New South Wales is paying a hefty price for a schools industrial system that protects under-performing teachers and puffs up generous working conditions at the expense of professional excellence…