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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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Education Workforce Summary

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This summary report synthesises findings across early years, school support staff, FE teachers, and school teachers. It identifies shared challenges including pay competitiveness and career progression, with FE teacher pay highlighted as having fallen rapidly in recent years....
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Teacher recruitment, training and retention

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This is a set of publications related to the Education Committee’s investigation into teacher recruitment, training and retention (2023-2025). The Committee reviewed comprehensive evidence related to the challenges in training and securing a stable teaching profession and the impacts on pupils of the current challenges. The publications include oral and...
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Teacher Recruitment and Retention in 2025

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This mid-year 2025 report documents a significant slowdown in secondary teacher recruitment activity with job advertisements down 36% compared to the previous year and 27% lower than pre-pandemic 2018/19. The report identifies both supply- and demand-side factors contributing to the slowdown, notes that teachers' long-term commitment to the profession remains...
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Schools and colleges in the 2025 spending review

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This IFS briefing contextualises government funding decisions for schools and colleges ahead of the 2025 Spending Review. The report notes that mainstream school funding per pupil was set to rise by 5.8% (including teacher and support staff pay rises), discusses the adequacy of funding for achieving recruitment and retention targets,...
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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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School Teachers’ Review Body – annual reports

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The School Teachers’ Review Body makes annual reports to Parliament recommending teachers’ salary increases and provide comprehensive analysis of teacher recruitment and retention challenges. They include analyses of teachers’ pay over time and make broader observations related to contemporary issues of concern such as workload management, flexible working options, and...
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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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Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025

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This is the latest in a series of nine reports published by Education Support on the wellbeing of the education workforce, carried out since 2019. It reflects the persistent trends in poor wellbeing and identifies the need for systemic change, following the lowest reported overall wellbeing score since recording began...
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Building a Stronger Further Education College Workforce

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This mixed-methods research, investigates barriers to recruiting and retaining FE teachers in Construction, Engineering, and Digital subjects. It finds that pay disparities with industry and schools, high workload centered on administrative tasks, limited pay progression, and inadequate support for new recruits are key factors undermining FE teacher supply....
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