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Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited

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The Guardian newspaper article provided a view of the shortages in initial teacher training recruitment in 2023, when half of the required number of trainee secondary school teachers in England were recruited for the 2023-24 training year. The article reports on figures from the National Education Union (NEU) and the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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