The education system will undergo radical change during the next decade. There will be a lot of people leaving and a lot of new people coming in, mostly because of retirements caused by people becoming older. New professional standards are being established to address the difficulties of the information society, and with that comes stricter criteria and higher expectations for educators. "The challenge is to avoid generational self-renewal," says Mayer. "The challenge is to be unconstrained by old or re-worked notions of what it means to be an Australian teacher." The MCEETYA Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership Taskforce (TQELT) commissioned a study of the teaching workforce in March 2003 to prepare for these changes and to help address the challenge, focusing on teachers in their first ten years of employment in public, Catholic, or independent schools.