Today, it has been revealed that some Australian universities are adding students into teaching degrees with ATARs as low as 39.

Former principal and founder and CEO of Real Schools, Adam Voigt, told Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons on 4BC Afternoons, "The truth is that the 39 could be easily representative of someone who got glandular fever in year 12 and they had a big, big interruption."

"Everything else we know about them tells us that they'd be a fabulous teacher, and universities make the decision to let that person in and point them in the direction of a teaching career."

"But we're not attracting our best and brightest to teaching. We're not filling the holes in the education workforce, where we have just people fleeing in droves, and we don't have enough people coming wanting to become teachers," Mr Voigt continued. 

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