West Australian educators have defended the state’s controversial one-year teaching degrees after the Victorian government banned its graduates from working in its public schools.

The Victorian government announced today it would close the loophole in its education recruitment policy, preventing WA teachers from working in government schools if they have not met the nationally agreed minimum two-year, post-graduate study requirement.

That requirement was set in a national agreement in 2014, but last year WA’s Teacher Registration Board reintroduced the one-year registration as the state aimed to combat its teacher shortage.

The degrees were available at Edith Cowan and Curtin universities.

The national agreement includes mutual recognition of studies, meaning those who have completed

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