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Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention: Evidence to Education Committee

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Highlights the impact of funding constraints and pay gaps on recruitment and retention. Argues financial investment is key to sustaining the workforce....
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What’s behind the teacher workforce crisis? A look at current challenges and future solutions

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This recorded seminar (2 hours) includes presentations of research into teacher recruitment and retention funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The projects investigate the trends in teachers’ pay, subject shortages and regional challenges, teacher workload and wellbeing, the impacts of Ofsted inspections, the legacy of Covid19 and the impacts of academisation....
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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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Further Education Workforce Shortages

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This report highlights critical recruitment and retention challenges within the further education construction sector, with nearly all the colleges surveyed reporting difficulties in hiring qualified staff. High industry pay and a lack of qualified applicants are identified as primary drivers of these shortages, which threaten the delivery of essential technical...
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College Staff Vacancies

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This report details a significant increase in staff vacancies across the further education sector, identifying over 6,000 openings and a high reliance on agency staff. It highlights that competitive private sector pay and heavy workloads are the primary barriers to recruiting and retaining qualified college personnel....
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College Workforce Survey

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The 2019-20 report analyses the English further education workforce, highlighting critical recruitment difficulties in technical disciplines and ongoing challenges with staff turnover. It also provides an assessment of the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on college operations and staffing levels....
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College Workforce Summary

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This report provides a comprehensive overview of the further education workforce in England, detailing key trends in staff demographics, pay, and qualifications during the 2018-19 academic year. It identifies persistent recruitment challenges in high-demand subjects like construction and engineering, while highlighting a growing reliance on agency staff to fill critical...
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Teacher shortages in England. Analysis and pay options

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This EPI report analysed the relationship between teacher pay and recruitment/retention problems, particularly in shortage subjects such as maths, sciences and languages. The report documents that, in 2020, only 54% of teachers in shortage subjects had relevant degrees (compared to 68% generally) and identified that retention rates are particularly poor...
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Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives

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This is an edited volume that examines the persistence of challenges for teacher retention and recruitment across contexts and the unequal impacts on the most disadvantaged communities. The book is in two parts with Part 1 exploring the challenges in the English context and the unequal impacts of teacher shortages...
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