Photo: GettyThe Government has more than doubled its target for recruiting overseas teachers to fill a shortfall of 850 teachers next year. • Additional funding for agencies to process more overseas teacher applications. "We've also increased our overseas recruitment target for 2019 from 400 up to 900 and enlisted further recruitment agency support for schools. He said overseas recruitment would concentrate on "countries with teaching qualifications that are similar to ours". "The Government is also looking at options to strengthen the Initial Teacher Education sector, including looking at ways to make teacher training more flexible so we can support a wider range of people with different sets of skills into the profession."

Source: Otago Daily Times October 14, 2018 00:45 UTC