No wonder no one wants to be a teacher: world-first study looks at 65,000 news articles about Australian teachers

By Nicole Mockler, Associate Professor of Education, University of Sydney

Remember when former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert lashed out at “dud” teachers? In March, the then acting education minister said the “bottom 10%” of teachers “can’t read and write” and blamed them for declining academic results.

This is more than just a sensational headline or politician trying to get attention. My research argues the way teachers are talked about in the media has a flow-on effect to how people…

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