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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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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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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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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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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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Understanding the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention for ‘educationally isolated’ schools in England

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The chapter presents a research-informed conceptualisation of ‘educational isolation’ to understand the nature of place-based, contextual school challenges for teacher recruitment and retention in England. The authors’ research exposes how educationally isolated schools are typically located in coastal and rural areas and experience limited access to resources for school improvement...
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Education Isolation: A challenge for schools in England

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This report examines educational isolation and the impacts of long-term under-funding on the recruitment and retention of teachers for schools working in contexts that are impacted by geographical location, socio-economic disadvantage and disadvantage due to limited diversity or access to cultural resources....
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Teaching in the lifelong learning

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This practitioner handbook shows how patchy salary funding and undefined career ladders make FE posts less competitive than schools or industry. Rural colleges, STEM and digital subjects report the steepest recruiting difficulties; chapters offer manager-level retention tactics....
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