Teacher Workforce Action Plan

The Government will provide $35.0 million over 4 years from 2022-23 to attract more people to the teaching profession and retain more teachers in the workforce. This funding forms part of the $328 million National Teacher Workforce Action Plan (the Action Plan) agreed by Commonwealth, State and Territory Education Ministers in December 2022. Funding includes: * $25.0 million over 4 years from 2022-23 to establish a Teacher Workload Reduction Fund to pilot new ways to reduce teacher workloads and maximise the time they have to teach * $10.0 million over two years from 2022-23 for a national communications campaign to raise the status of the teaching profession. Education | As part of the Action Plan the Government agreed in December 2022 to broaden the cohorts eligible for teaching bursaries to include mid-career professionals, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and other underrepresented communities. In addition, the Government will provide $9.3 million over 4 years from 2023-24 for the Department of Education, the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to support the implementation of the Action Plan. This measure will be fully offset from savings within the Education Portfolio. Employment and Workplace Relations