To improve the working conditions and professional education of ECEC staff, the Australian Government has introduced free education for students undertaking a Diploma in Children's Services qualification and has opened up additional Commonwealth supported places for students studying for a university early childhood teaching degree.
Better pre-service qualifications leading to more search confirms results from other studies.
In addition, teachers with better pre-service qualifications (such as advanced degrees or certification) are more likely to be looking to transfer.
Instead, each state identifies minimum pre-service qualifications for early childhood teaching staff as a part of program licensing regulations, which in most cases do not require a post-secondary degree, even for master teachers.
Given the minimal pre-service qualifications to be hired as a child care teacher in the US, policies requiring the workforce to complete post-hire initial and ongoing training make intuitive sense.
Again, this is not obvious from the data, as teachers who transfer and those that do not move (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) look very similar in terms of pre-service qualifications.
In reality, teacher quality is a complex construct that almost certainly hinges on teachers' instructional practices, pedagogical content knowledge, attitudes toward students and teaching, as well as pre-service qualifications and professional development activities (Darling-Hammond and Youngs, 2002; Goe, 2007).
Results show that mid-career teachers with better pre-service qualifications are the most eager to search, different types of teachers and schools have different search strategies, and the market is turbulent, characterized by search friction and large movements of teachers to better, worse, or comparable schools.
Students also complete a City and Guilds customer service qualification and visit a big business such as Coca Cola, where they work in competing teams to design a product and marketing plan.
