Viewpoints: should universities raise the ATAR required for entrance into teaching degrees?
- Written by Anne-Marie Morgan, Professor and Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and Education, University of New England
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Shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a Labor government would raise the ATAR required for entrance into a teaching degree if elected at the next election. Plibersek said:
I don’t want people with ATARs of 35 going into teaching, I just...