“I’ve found myself in a rare situation with all male teachers,” Facer said. “We are staffed 100 per cent by males. It s the first time in my career and I trained in the late 1980s. It s an oddity but it’s fantastic,” Facer said. When Facer was studying in Dunedin the teacher training intake of 180 comprised 150 women and 30 men. He estimated only about half of the males went onto qualify.
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New classrooms at Lake Tekapo School – part of a major rebuild project completed at the end of last year. He would not comment on why he thought so few males entered the profession.