Since 2001, the Ministry of Education has contracted with the Ontario College of Teachers to undertake a comprehensive study that looks at newly certified Ontario Teachers.
The study of spring 2010 Faculty of Education graduates found that more new Teachers report that they are unemployed in their first school year than ever before and more are taking up alternate work.
Almost one in three education graduates of 2010 who looked for teaching jobs in the 2010-11 school year said they had no success at all.
The rate of underemployment in education has increased by more than 100% since the statistic was first gathered in the 2006 study.
The rate of unemployment in education has increased by more than 1000% since the statistic was first gathered in the 2006 study.
Less than 25% of 2010 graduates had secured a contract teaching position of any type, well-below the 70% level in 2001.
Certified Teachers experience the highest rate of unemployment, with 40% of them not able to find teaching jobs of any type.
More first-year Teachers are now working in non-teaching jobs, either as an alternative to teaching or to supplement part-time or supply teaching.
Many FSL Teachers are now resorting to part-time teaching jobs in the first year.
It is clear that the Ontario Teacher surplus is getting worse NOT better. Overall, the annual number of new Ontario-certified Teachers has fallen by more than 1,500 from the previous high point in 2008 - but remains almost 3,000 above 1999 levels.
For further details, check out the March 2012 edition of Professionally Speaking magazine published by the Ontario College of Teachers and available electronically at http://professionallyspeaking.oct.ca/march_2012/.
ETFO THAMES VALLEY OCCASIONAL TEACHERS' LOCAL
