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Rob of Cardiff, NSW, Readers' Comment 11 of 42, Trendy teachers cheat the poor and lay the groundwork for riots, Katharine Birbalsingh, The Australian, 23 September 2011: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/trendy-teachers-cheat-the-poor-and-lay-the-groundwork-for-riots/story-e6frg6zo-1226143966471 Historical link preserved from the original page.

New South Wales: more than 30 per cent of Hunter and Central Coast teachers resign after less than five years of teaching.

Information obtained by the Newcastle Herald under freedom of information legislation reveals that in the past five years 348 teachers have resigned in the combined Hunter and Central Coast region of New South Wales.

Over the same period 1147 teachers retired.

Last year more than 50 per cent of full-time teachers who resigned had less than 10 years’ experience in the job.

Of these more than 30 per cent had less than five years’ experience.

NSW Teachers Federation Hunter organiser Fred Dumbrell described the region’s burnout rate among new teachers as a ‘‘worrying trend’’ for public education.

Mr Dumbrell said teachers were being asked to do more with limited resources and their physical working environments were ‘‘terrible’’.

‘‘These... entry teachers are not getting the support they need,’’ he said.

We need to nurture our talented new teachers and stop them from leaving.

A NSW Education and Training Department spokesman said that NSW retention rates for teachers in their first year of service was 97 per cent and almost 90 per cent in the first five years.

Which seems to suggest that there is a particular problem in the Hunter and Central Coast region.

Rookie teachers call it quits, Donna Page, 25 June 2011, The ( Newcastle ) Herald: http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/rookie-teachers-call-it-quits/2206259.aspx Historical link preserved from the original page.

New South Wales: we need research into which Hunter and Central Coast schools are losing young teachers and why the young teachers are resigning.

I suggest that the Department identifies exactly which Hunter and Central Coast schools young teachers have resigned from in the past ten years.

There will be some interesting facts there.

They may find that a lack of Departmental support, a lack of support by the principal and a cultural problem in some Hunter schools are factors that are driving these resignations.