More than half of Auckland schools are each struggling to fill up to four teaching jobs, a new survey reveals.
Sixty-six per cent of schools across the region took part in the survey, which found more than 50 per cent had three or four teacher vacancies.
Auckland Primary Principals' Association
president Kevin Bush said of those, more than half had advertised four or five times, spanning several months, and even then still failed to fill the roles.
He said it was the worst shortage he'd seen in 30 years.
"In all my time as principal, and in talking with principals I know, none of us have seen such a situation as this where there is such a shortage of teachers out there."
