News release

Acadia Hosts Job Fair To Recruit New Teachers

Education (July 1999 - March 2013)

Graduating bachelor of education students at Acadia University are sprucing up their résumés and beginning their job hunt today, Jan. 13.

The people who hire teachers for Nova Scotia's school boards will be at the university in Wolfville as part of the first Early Hiring Job Fair of 2004.

"Other provinces actively recruit Nova Scotia graduates, so we've organized these fairs to enable our school boards to have the first chance at attracting talented new teachers from our universities," said Education Minister Jamie Muir, who will attend the event at Acadia this evening.

The Department of Education, school boards and other partners organized the job fairs so boards can try to fill positions in teaching areas such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, technology education and French.

Each job fair will allow students to meet with representatives from the school boards, the Nova Scotia registrar of teacher certification, the Nova Scotia Teachers Union, the Nova Scotia School Boards Association and the Nova Scotia Teachers Credit Union.

Other job fairs will be held at St. Francis Xavier University on Thursday, Jan. 22; Université Sainte-Anne-College de l'Acadie on, Thursday, Jan. 29; and Mount Saint Vincent University on Friday Jan. 30.

Nova Scotia school boards will also attend the education job fair organized by the University of Prince Edward Island on Thursday, Feb. 12.

Boards will hire only a portion of their entire complement of teachers through the job fairs.

Current term and substitute teachers, teachers who graduated before 2004, or those who graduated from education programs at a university outside Nova Scotia can find out more about employment openings by contacting individual school boards.

Teachers wishing to apply directly to school boards will find a list of boards and their contact information on the Department of Education website at www.ednet.ns.ca .

Those teachers may also attend the University of Prince Edward Island event in February at the Rodd Charlottetown Hotel.