Erica Stanford: Education Minister on the Government's efforts to attract more teachers

The Education Minister says several factors are at play in making teaching an increasingly attractive career option. 

New figures released to Newstalk ZB show the teaching workforce increased 2.5% last year – the largest annual increase since records began back in 2009. 

First-time enrolments in teaching courses are also up, 6.3%. 

Erica Stanford told Mike Hosking the Government's doing several things to attract and retain teachers. 

She says that includes good resources, world-leading professional learning and development, on-site training programmes, and paying teacher fees. 

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