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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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The Knowledge: What works to improve recruitment and retention?

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This article sets out key findings from an Education Endowment Foundation review of international evidence on successful measures to recruit and retain teachers. It reports that financial incentives given directly to teachers, such as offering higher salaries or recruitment bonuses, could help to attract more teachers to take posts 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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Golden Thread or Gilded Cage? An analysis of Department for Education support for the continuing professional development of teachers

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The report was prepared by the UCET Continuing Professional Development Forum to examine the strengths, weaknesses and unforeseen impacts of the Early Career Framework (ECF) and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) after the first year of the ECF. Major concerns are expressed with the degree of repetition between the ECF and...
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RETAIN: A research-informed model of continuing professional development for early career teacher retention

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This chapter presents evaluation research about RETAIN, a pilot programme of continuing professional development (CPD) located in Cornwall, England, that was designed to retain early career teachers (ECTs). It explores the place-based challenges and potential solutions offered by the programme, which aimed to support teacher retention in the context of...
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Incentive Programmes for the recruitment and retention of Teachers in Further Education

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This research report underpinned 2019 policy discussions by identifying which financial incentives (like bursaries) were most effective for the FE sector. Identifying that long-term retention also requires holistic approaches such as high-quality mentoring, ongoing professional development and flexible working arrangements....
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