Not exact matches
One of the problems, one of the biggest issues in it, was there was no real
data on the number of
Indigenous teachers that were in fact out there, other than that 72 that Hughes and Willmot counted back in 1979.
When we look at the difference between 2012 and 2015: there were 1660
teachers who identified as
Indigenous in the 2012
data and were still there in the 2015
data; there were 743
teachers who didn't identify in 2012 but they did in 2015 (and I'll come back to that one in a moment); there were 697
teachers who commenced their teaching after 2012; and then there were 1001 who identified in 2012 but weren't able to be tracked in the 2015
data.
Latest
data show 83 per cent of
Indigenous teachers are classroom
teachers, 7 per cent are Deputy Principals (or equivalent) and 3 per cent are Principals.
data (latest
data on https://www.education.gov.au/selected-higher-education-statistics-2014-student-
data), as collated in my
Indigenous higher education database (on http://www.firstsources.info), there are now around eight thousand
Indigenous graduates in education, with around four hundred new
teachers each year.
According to the report, the number of
teachers identifying as ATSI increased from 2661 to 3100 between 2012 and 2015, including 697 who joined the workforce after 2012; and 14 per cent of
Indigenous teachers and executives from the 2012
data collection (233) were promoted by 2015, including 40 to the role of Principal.