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Teacher recruitment, training and retention

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This is a set of publications related to the Education Committee’s investigation into teacher recruitment, training and retention (2023-2025). The Committee reviewed comprehensive evidence related to the challenges in training and securing a stable teaching profession and the impacts on pupils of the current challenges. The publications include oral and...
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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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Exploring Education Policy and Reform in England (2010 – 2024) and the Early Career Framework: The unfolding of an education ‘market’ for teacher development

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This chapter provides an overview and critical analysis of the Early Career Framework (ECF) education policy in England. This policy formed a fundamental part of the Department for Educations Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy in 2019, establishing a mandatory framework of professional formation for early career teachers (ECTs) to become...
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Supporting Teacher Retention and Career Progression: Fostering Early Career Teacher Self-Efficacy Through Reflective Practice and Professional Development

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The education landscape in England faces a critical challenge: the significant and sustained attrition of early career teachers (ECTs) and its subsequent impact on education stability. This chapter addresses how reflective practice, and targeted professional development can foster self-efficacy, autonomy, and job satisfaction among ECTs, ultimately improving retention rates and...
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Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025

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This is the latest in a series of nine reports published by Education Support on the wellbeing of the education workforce, carried out since 2019. It reflects the persistent trends in poor wellbeing and identifies the need for systemic change, following the lowest reported overall wellbeing score since recording began...
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Teacher Recruitment in England: What Are Schools in Disadvantaged Areas Doing to Attract New Staff?

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This blog examines teacher recruitment challenges particularly acute in schools serving disadvantaged communities where turnover rates are substantially higher. The blog explores strategies schools are adopting to attract and retain teachers despite serving pupils with greater needs and acknowledges the structural challenges facing disadvantaged school communities in competing for limited...
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Missing Mothers

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The report is based on survey research with women teachers who leave teaching following maternity, typically in their thirties. This accounts for a large proportion of attrition from teaching after the early career stage. It recommends changes that could attract more women to return to teaching following becoming a parent,...
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1970s working conditions in the 2020s: Modernising the professional lives of teachers for the 21st Century

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The report examines the reasons why so many secondary school teachers and leaders in the state sector leave the profession, and what would encourage them to stay. It focuses particularly on the reasons why there are greater challenges in retaining secondary school teachers rather than primary, and the ways in...
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Teacher recruitment, training and retention: Evidence to Education Committee

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The report explores the multiple factors that impact on teachers’ decisions to leave the profession. There is a specific focus on teachers’ pay but the report also identifies the range of issues that need to inform policy to address the problem. At the time of reporting, 1 in 5 new...
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Six charts that explain the state of the teaching workforce in England

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This EPI analysis presents six key data visualisations illustrating teacher supply trends including recruitment shortfalls, retention patterns by experience level, regional variations in teacher supply, and the relationship between teacher quality and school disadvantage. The report highlights that retention of early-career teachers has fallen since the previous year but remains...
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