As schools turn to university students and graduates without a teachers' degree to cope with a shortage, a certified teacher from Dieppe says she's been trying to find full-time work without success.

Dieppe resident Allie Fanjoy was hired as a supply teacher for the coming school year in late August, but she says the process was slow and frustrating.

More frustrating, she says, was learning that schools in the anglophone system are still short by 32 teachers — and three districts of the four are relying on 132 people on local permit contracts.

Local permit contracts enable school districts to hire people without teaching degrees, and some with no university degree at all.