The Australian Council of Deans of Education wants to know why people doing teaching degrees decided to become teachers and why they think their peers didn’t  

So, it’s going to ask them. The deans and Swinburne U have created a site where initial teacher ed students can write up their ideas and experiences and suggest ways of addressing impediments.

The aim is “to effectively form a large on-line focus group,” ACDE says.

Back in April deans president Tania Aspland called for a national strategy to attract, “the best professional candidates” to teacher education (CMM April 17).