Manitoba universities struggle to recruit education students

As post-secondary students in Canada’s Manitoba province start their summer vacations, universities are focused on finding future teachers amid a worsening shortage, writes Chelsea Kemp for CBC News.

Alysha Farrell, Brandon University’s dean of education, says a “COVID cloud still hangs over schools”, making it hard to recruit future teachers, even as the province and country face a shortage. “How do we encourage more young people to become teachers?” she said. “One of the things that we can do is to ensure that public education is robustly funded so that teachers feel supported and that their work is honoured … That would go a long way ... to having more teachers sign up.”

Brandon University has three education undergraduate programmes – including an after-degree programme that still hadn’t filled 30 of its 100 seats in June. “We’re going to have some significant challenges staffing classrooms,” Farrell said.
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