Mr MILLS - 2002-08-21
How many qualified teachers are employed within the Department of Education, but are not currently working or teaching in classrooms?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I had better start bringing the thesaurus of all facts relating to the Department of Education down with me. It is not an answer I would be expected to know off the top of my head. Of course, there would be teachers in Curriculum Services Branch and in Indigenous Education Unit, scattered right across different areas.
Whilst this question goes to non-teaching, some of them are dual roles. We have specialists based in all the centres across the Territory who go and spend two or three days at a time in schools delivering specialist advice and services to the teaching service. Bearing in mind that the question is perhaps not as cut and dried and as simple as the shadow minister for education suggests it might be, I will certainly get the information and deliver it to the shadow minister as soon as I am able.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I had better start bringing the thesaurus of all facts relating to the Department of Education down with me. It is not an answer I would be expected to know off the top of my head. Of course, there would be teachers in Curriculum Services Branch and in Indigenous Education Unit, scattered right across different areas.
Whilst this question goes to non-teaching, some of them are dual roles. We have specialists based in all the centres across the Territory who go and spend two or three days at a time in schools delivering specialist advice and services to the teaching service. Bearing in mind that the question is perhaps not as cut and dried and as simple as the shadow minister for education suggests it might be, I will certainly get the information and deliver it to the shadow minister as soon as I am able.
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