It is a nonsense that professions like medicine, law, nursing and engineers have their own professional body but teachers remain the playthings of government policy.
Federal Secretary Chris Watt welcomed the support from the Australian Council of Deans of Education that the profession take over responsibility for training and registering new teachers”
“Teachers deserve a registration and accreditation authority that is of, by and for the profession.
“Current state and national bodies engaged in ‘regulating’ the teaching profession are not professional authorities. Teachers aren’t even majority stakeholders on these authorities.
Invariably current bodies are products of legislative, policy decisions of different government at different times.
“If it is appropriate for the real estate institute to be run by real estate agents then why do governments not trust the teaching profession to professionally and ethically manage the registration and accreditation affairs of the teaching profession?