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'Significant challenges': Educators concerned as report shines light on teacher shortage

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Tue, 20 Jan 2026, 5:11pm
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'Significant challenges': Educators concerned as report shines light on teacher shortage

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 20 Jan 2026, 5:11pm

Some schools are scrambling to fill teaching positions before term one.

About 450 teaching and principal roles remain vacant - 12 percent more than this time last year.

About 75 percent are in the North Island, with 125 in Auckland.

The principal of Auckland's Northcote College, Vicki Barrie, says they鈥檒l likely start the year with gaps in carpentry and M膩ori studies.

"We've got some flexibility within the timetable and the teachers that we've already got, so we're making changes to the timetable to cover it temporarily." 

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