What’s behind the teacher workforce crisis? A look at current challenges and future solutions

Briefings and Blogs, Inspection and accountability, Pay, Place and rurality, Recruitment, Retention, Stress and wellbeing, Subject and skills shortages, Workload and working conditions

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What’s behind the teacher workforce crisis? A look at current challenges and future solutions

Date: 2023

Author/s: Nuffield Foundation

Keywords: workforce crisis; subject shortages; teachers’ pay; regional teacher shortages; teacher workload; teacher wellbeing; statistics; Ofsted; Covid19; academisation

Summary:

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. The website includes synopses of the projects and links to further details about each one.

Reference: Nuffield Foundation (2023). What’s behind the teacher workforce crisis? A look at current challenges and future solutions. Nuffield Foundation

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