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Further Education Workforce Data Collection

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The UK government's plan to introduce a new, mandatory data collection for the further education (FE) workforce in England, starting voluntarily in the 2020/21 academic year and becoming compulsory in 2021/22. This initiative aims to improve policy-making and benchmarking by providing a comprehensive evidence base on staff recruitment, retention, and...
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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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Afterword – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges and international perspectives

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This afterword to the book by the same authors provides a critical overview of the international dimensions of multiple, situated challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers. It draws attention to the ‘discord’ between the bodies that control teacher training and teachers’ professional development and the research-informed findings and recommendations of...
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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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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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The Recruitment and Retention of Teachers in England

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Chapter situates graduate ITE recruitment shortfalls within broader FE and school data; examines policy levers (bursaries, retention incentives) and calls for parity between ITE funding for schools and FE....
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The Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding

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The independent review highlighted the significant challenges facing the FE sector, including teacher shortages and the need for better funding to support recruitment and retention in colleges....
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The Recruitment of VET Teachers and the Failure of Policy in England’s Further Education Sector

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The piece argues that chronic recruitment difficulties for science, engineering, and technology teachers in English further education reveal a systemic failure of policy planning and sustained "policy churn". The study concludes that decades of unstable reforms have created a, "near-permanent state of revolution," hindering the successful implementation of vocational education...
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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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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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