The Department of Education in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), has unveiled data detailing why teachers left the profession, showing the number of permanent public school teachers who resigned has steadily increased each year since 2017.
During the same period, the number of teachers who retired fell from 2017 to 2020, before stabilising in 2021.
In 2021, the number of teachers who resigned exceeded those who retired, with 1159 quitting and 1142 retiring.
The data, seen by AAP, was provided to the NSW parliament during a recent inquiry into the state’s teacher shortage.
Education and Early Learning Minister Sarah Mitchell accused the opposition of spreading mistruths about the education sector and misunderstanding the data….