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Understanding teacher recruitment and retention across the UK: A ‘home international’ comparison

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This study adopts a comparative approach to the teacher recruitment and retention challenges facing the UK nations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It presents large-scale comparative analysis across the four nations, focusing on policy, secondary data and interviews with key stakeholders. The findings indicate the widely varying approaches...
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Exploring key predictors of teacher wellbeing, job satisfaction and burnout: Building a broader conceptualisation of teacher resilience

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This research article uses a social-ecological approach to examining teacher resilience, focusing on multiple individual and contextual factors that were found to contribute to wellbeing, job satisfaction and burnout. It uses survey data from nearly 3,000 teachers. It found that teacher well-being was mostly associated with individual factors such as...
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Career Motivations and Perceptions of teaching 16–19-year-olds in England and Wales

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This study explores what motivates 16–19yearolds in England and Wales to consider teaching careers, finding generally low interest—especially among students in technical and STEM fields. It highlights how perceptions of workload, pay, and status deter young people from entering further education teaching....
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Supporting or stifling? Experiences of beginning teachers working within the Early Career Framework

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This research article examines the experiences of new teachers working with the Early Career Framework (ECF). It offers a critique of the ECF based on the findings from survey and interview data, suggesting that a core problem is the ‘one size fits all’ design of the framework. Early Career Teachers...
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Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England?

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This paper examines the recruitment and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England and the barriers to career progression experienced by teachers of colour and consequences for their retention. It analyses interviews with teachers and school leaders of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Findings indicate that these teachers obtained teaching posts, but...
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What helps to attract minority ethnic teachers in England?: Results from a national survey

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This paper reports on a national survey of 3,646 serving teachers to examine the factors impacting the attraction of teachers to work in schools and their reasons for leaving. Workload is identified as the biggest factor influencing teachers’ intentions to leave. Findings indicate that concerns about pay and the ethnic...
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Considering the Mystery of Professionalism: Further Education in the UK

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This paper analyzes the evolving and often contested concept of professionalism within the UK Further Education (FE) sector following the structural changes introduced by the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act. address. It argues that, despite decades of policy reform, teacher recruitment and retention as a contextual challenge linked to...
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Teacher Recruitment and Retention Challenges in the Further Education and Skills Sector

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It analyses global strategies for addressing chronic teacher recruitment and retention shortages within the further education sector, focusing on improving workload management and professional status. Key solutions include shifting from short-term fixes to long-term systemic reforms, such as enhancing pay parity and fostering collaborative professional development....
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(Re)Conceptualising Effective Teaching in Further Edcuation: An Exploratory Study

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This article examines how teachers and leaders in further education define “effective teaching,” revealing that it extends beyond subject expertise to include adaptability, learner relationships, and reflective practice. It argues that recognising these broader dimensions is vital for improving teacher recruitment, training, and retention in the FE sector....
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Teacher recruitment, retention and progression. Supporting career development for all

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This edition of the journal Impact, by the Chartered College of Teaching, provides a collection of brief articles that examine teacher recruitment and retention from differing perspectives. There is notable attention to the ways in which school culture and leadership affects teacher retention and to the ways in which discrimination...
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