Labor to introduce minimum Atars for teaching degrees if unis don't lift standards

Tanya Plibersek says students should compete to get into teaching ‘the same way they compete to get into medicine’

Labor has warned it will introduce mandatory entry scores for teaching degrees if universities do not toughen their admission standards.

In the face of growing concern over entry scores for teaching degrees, the deputy opposition leader, Tanya Plibersek, said on Sunday that if universities did not move to lift standards, a Labor government would move to make Atar (Australian tertiary admission rank) caps mandatory.

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