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Teacher Workforce: Secondary and Further Education

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This comprehensive NAO report provides a full assessment of teacher recruitment and retention challenges across both secondary schools and further education colleges. It highlights ongoing recruitment and retention challenges, including pay disparities and weak workforce planning. The report documents that the government budgeted £700 million in 2024-25 for teacher recruitment...
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Teacher recruitment and retention in England data dashboard

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This interactive data dashboard provides information on teacher recruitment and retention challenges and contains data up to the 2023/24 academic year. It allows the user to navigate data to examine the impacts of teacher shortages on pupils and schools, focusing on regional differences, subjects and school types. Its latest updates...
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Teach Cornwall Report. Place-based challenges for trainee teacher recruitment

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This report sets out an explanation of why urban-centric teacher recruitment strategies do not meet the recruitment and retention needs of rural and coastal areas like Cornwall. It explores the multiple impacts of educational isolation brought about by geographic remoteness, high living costs, and limited diversity and connectivity. It calls...
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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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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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Why we should all be concerned about the shortage of science teachers

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This NewScientist article argues that the shortage of qualified specialist science teachers is a threat to the future of science and engineering and that this is a concern for the UK and internationally. The article draws on research evidence that indicates the impacts of the lack of qualified science subject...
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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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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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The progression and retention of Teach First teachers. An analysis of the 2011 to 2017 Teach First cohorts

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This NFER evaluation compares progression and retention of Teach First teachers with similar teachers trained through other ITT routes. Key findings show Teach First teachers are significantly less likely to remain in teaching after their NQT [Newly Qualified Teacher] year than other PGCE teachers (gap narrowed from 23 percentage points...
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Educational Isolation and the challenge of ‘place’ for securing and sustaining a high-quality teacher supply

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This chapter explores how location is an important factor that impacts on recruiting and sustaining quality teachers in England. ‘Educational Isolation’ is used as a framework for examining the ways in which a school’s location in disadvantaged rural and coastal contexts can limit its maintenance of a quality workforce. Educationally...
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