Recruitment and retention

Now Teach warns ‘axing funding will narrow trainee teacher pool’

The charity will stop recruiting for 2025, unless it can secure philanthropic funding

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Now Teach goes nationwide with £3m boost to turn more top bosses to teaching

A recruitment programme aimed at persuading high-flying professionals to change career and retrain as teachers has secured £3 million...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Now Teach trainees get ready to celebrate QTS success

Three in four of the older career-changers who joined the Now Teach programmme, co-founded last September by Financial Times...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Now Teach charity gets £350,000 DfE funding to expand into Hastings

Now Teach, the organisation founded by former Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway to encourage professionals to become teachers later...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
Features

Lucy Kellaway, co-founder, Now Teach

It is a cliché of modern times that awful education policies are followed by a plethora of so-called “open...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney