Recruitment and retention

Trust offers degree pathway to create ‘children’s workforce’

Reach Foundation to launch unit to provide 'structural solutions' to workforce recruitment and retention issues

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Recruitment and retention

Government lacks ‘coherent plan’ to boost teacher recruitment

MPs also tell ministers to assess how effective pay rises are at retaining staff amid concerns over 6,500 teacher...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Recruitment and retention

The shapeshifting 6,500 teachers pledge 

Education secretary confirms promised teachers won't all be new, and target omits key subjects aim

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Recruitment and retention

Teacher retention payments not as effective as first thought, study suggests

NFER analysis finds some initiatives that gave teachers bonuses to stay in the classroom did not boost retention rates

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens
Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes
Recruitment and retention

DfE chief: ‘We can support schools to be more efficient’

Susan Acland-Hood also claims pledge to recruit 6,500 more teachers is underway, but cannot explain policy

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Recruitment and retention

Two-thirds of schools using free vacancy website still pay for adverts elsewhere

Government launched Teaching Vacancies service in 2019, with ministers predicting schools would save £75m

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Recruitment and retention

Teacher recruitment could be worse than it looks, DfE suggests

Government forecasts 'challenging period' ahead, will review NPQs...but there are record returners

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Recruitment and retention

Wage rises needed to attract 6,500 teachers would cost £7bn

Government would need to hike salaries by 10% for the next three years if relying on wage boosts alone...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson