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1970s working conditions in the 2020s: Modernising the professional lives of teachers for the 21st Century

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The report examines the reasons why so many secondary school teachers and leaders in the state sector leave the profession, and what would encourage them to stay. It focuses particularly on the reasons why there are greater challenges in retaining secondary school teachers rather than primary, and the ways in...
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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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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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FE Teacher Recruitment and the Landscape of FE

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The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) report highlights a critical recruitment and retention crisis in the further education sector, particularly for technical and vocational roles. It advocates for a national workforce strategy that supports "dual professionals" by scaling successful initiatives and enhancing career-long support to ensure a resilient, future-ready education...
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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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Teaching as a high-status profession: Improving teacher supply. Recommendations for the education white paper 2022

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this report presents findings from the investigation carried out by the APPG Teacher supply SIG into the actins needed to support a high-status and sustainable teaching profession. Recommendations include that policy liaison is needed between policymakers and professional bodies to establish coherence and long-term planning for sustaining the profession; there...
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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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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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Teacher recruitment, retention and progression. Supporting career development for all

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This edition of the journal Impact, by the Chartered College of Teaching, provides a collection of brief articles that examine teacher recruitment and retention from differing perspectives. There is notable attention to the ways in which school culture and leadership affects teacher retention and to the ways in which discrimination...
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