NZ – Primary Teaching Graduates Told To Seek Jobs Overseas

Primary teaching students are being encouraged to leave New Zealand for overseas when they graduate because nationally only one in five will land jobs at home.

Canterbury Primary Principals’ Association president John Bangma said the odds for Christchurch graduates were even worse than that.

He advised Christchurch graduates to look for jobs elsewhere in New Zealand.

Schools in Christchurch facing falling rolls would be making more teachers redundant at the end of this year and it was likely any new jobs being advertised would be filled with experienced teachers rather than graduates, he said.

Victoria University teaching diploma students were told that although there would be plenty of jobs towards the end of the decade, the current situation was gloomy…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7814895/Graduates-told-to-seek-jobs-overseas