Consider ‘golden handcuff’ bursaries, major ITT providers say Six key findings from the education committee hearing on recruitment and retention crisis
Teach First offers £2k cost-of-living payment to trainees Grant will be paid to 150 recruits who need to relocate under a pilot starting in September
ITT partnerships to help ‘cold spots’ fall through Two proposed plans involving four universities have collapsed
Reject fewer teacher applicants, DfE tells trainers Letter to providers seen by Schools Week flags ‘significant rejection rates’, even in shortage subjects
Uni marking boycott: DfE suspends teacher trainee degree requirement Graduates now able to start ITT courses before getting their degree this year after temporary rule change
DfE ‘assessing’ potential teacher recruitment hit from university marking boycott Government tells ITT providers it’s ‘assessing the scale and likelihood’ of potential disruption to recruits waiting on degrees amid university marking boycott
DfE on course to recruit less than half of required secondary teachers Analysis of new government recruitment targets shows teacher supply is ‘spiralling out of control’
7 NFER stats revealing how abysmal teacher recruitment is getting worse New report shows primary applications have plunged, with 14 of 17 secondary subjects on track to underrecruit
DfE calls for research to refresh flagship teacher training reforms The government plans to review and revise the ITT core content and early careers framework so that they are ‘more closely combined’