TEACHERS won't get pay rises if they don't meet standards and it will be easier for those who underperform to get the boot under sweeping reforms to boost the quality of teaching in NSW.
Teaching students will also sit mandatory literacy and numeracy tests before being allowed into classrooms, while only school leavers who score above 80 in three subjects will make it into university courses.
Other measures include mentoring entry level teachers and ongoing professional development - moves critics say can't be implemented without funding.
"Quite clearly they can't do it and it can't run on an austerity budget," NSW Teachers Federation president Maurie Mulheron said.
"You can't do this on the cheap, nor should you. Either you're committed to raising the standards of the profession or you're not."
Announcing the blueprint for reform on Wednesday, NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said the public, independent and Catholic sectors were working on their responses.
"In three months time when we get those implementation plans there may well be costs associated with it ... and it will then be a question for myself and cabinet," he said.
Mr Piccoli conceded some of the recommendations involving supporting first year teachers would have a significant financial impact.
"But the vast majority of the actions in here are not aspirational," he said.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said the reforms were "broad and deep" and could no longer be put off.
From 2015, all teachers in NSW will be required to meet national standards and undergo training every five years to meet accreditation processes.
To get a practical placement, teaching students will be required to pass a literacy and numeracy test that proves they are in the top 30 per cent of students across NSW.
School leavers wanting to study education at university will need HSC band 5 results in a minimum of three subjects, one of which must be English, in what Mr Piccoli said was "a significant raising of the bar".
About 70 per cent of students this year would not have met the new standard.
Mr Piccoli said he wasn't concerned about a drop in graduates because there weren't enough full-times places to meet the current demand.
New pay arrangements mean salaries will also be based on meeting standards, linked to career pathways.
"If you can't meet those standards, to a point, your pay won't increase. Currently it increases automatically," Mr Piccoli said.
Opposition education spokeswoman Carmel Tebbutt backed lifting university entrance marks but said good teaching also relied on training and support.
The government's plan includes reducing the load for beginner teachers, improving professional development and strengthening mentoring.
"Those are things that need funding and this government instead of increasing funding is in fact reducing funding for education," Ms Tebbutt told reporters.
She also said it would also be hard to attract "the best and brightest" when teachers had just copped the lowest pay increase in a decade.
Ms Mulheron called on the government to reverse its $1.7 billion in budget cuts.
"We lose too many young people in the first three to four years," she said.
"We need financial incentives and professional support to make sure they stay in teaching."
Greens MP John Kaye said the changes were a recipe for teacher shortages.
"There is no fat left in public schools. Any additional burden will cut into classroom teaching," he told AAP.
Sydney Catholic Schools executive director Dan White said he welcomed more mentoring and internship opportunities for young teachers but that a requirement for would-be teachers to achieve a band five in three HSC subjects was "too blunt an instrument".
"In fact, it could prove counterproductive by distorting the subject selection process and encouraging students to choose less demanding subjects," Dr White said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The idea of testing students in literacy and numeracy as they approach their final year of teacher formation has more merit.
"It is the standard of the graduates at the end of their course that is more important than the entry levels at the beginning of it."
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