Immigration expert gives his solution to keep foreign teachers in the classroom

School principals are calling for the federal laws to be overhauled to allow foreign teachers to remain on the job, instead of being forced to pick fruit and vegetables.

Fully trained teachers, on working holiday visas are being forced to leave classrooms and fulfil the mandated 88 days of agricultural labour in order to qualify for a second year in Australia.

But former Immigration Department deputy secretary, Abul Rizvi says there’s a quick fix.

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Managing Director of Free Agency, which works with schools to provide casual relief teachers, Tim Arnold, spoke with Neil Mitchell on the state of the school system.

He doesn’t believe the school system is broken but thinks there needs to be a re-think of how the system works.

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