Ontario adding 2,600 teacher college spaces amid shortage

Ontario adding 2,600 teacher college spaces amid shortage

Ontario is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it stares down a worsening teacher shortage, a move unions say is welcome though will not in isolation solve the problem.

Ontario’s plan for teachers’ college is reactive, not reformative

Two years of teacher’s college has worked for decades; changing the syllabus could hurt the Ontario education system and cheat students out of a fair degree.The province of Ontario is currently battling an ongoing teacher shortage, with a proposed solution to completely overhaul the teachers’ college program. This is the latest in the recent curriculum changes to the Ontario education system that has seen the loss of 5000 educators in six years …

The Ontario government plans to add 2,600 new teacher training places to address the growing teacher shortage. The 2025 provincial budget submitted by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy allocates $55.8 million to expand places in education colleges across the province by 2027, with the earliest effective as September this year.