Teaching courses should be for graduates only, says expert - The Australian

TEACHERS are being demonised in the debate about raising the standard of education, according to one of the nation's most respected teaching experts Stephen Dinham, who said teaching had become the "battered profession" that was blamed for falling student scores.

In a speech delivered to the Australian College of Educators in Canberra last night, Professor Dinham laments the "growing chorus of ill-informed half-baked solutions to the 'problem' of teacher quality", which misunderstood the profession and its challenges.