Call for national teacher standards

A new report recommends an overhaul of how teachers are judged, writes Caroline Milburn.

SCHOOL teachers should be able to measure their competence against national standards that could herald a new era of performance-based pay, according to the author of a report on the profession.

Dr Lawrence Ingvarson said teaching, unlike most other professions in Australia, had not developed uniform standards that applied to its members regardless of where they worked.

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