Six ideas from MPs to aid recruitment and retention Government must ‘use all the tools in the box’ to resolve problems
Scouting for teachers: DfE’s latest recruitment plan revealed Scouts will develop ‘teaching skills’ as part of attaining their badges under a new government scheme to boost teaching pipeline
DfE ‘inexplicably’ cuts back £10k teacher ‘relocation premium’ Grant to cover visa and health surcharge will only be available to qualified teachers and not trainees from next year
Teacher recruitment campaign gets animated to boost interest £15,000 contract aims to provide ‘access to realistic job preview tools’
We need NHS-style long-term school workforce plan, says NIoT boss Melanie Renowden wants to see education equivalent to health service’s 15-year recruitment and retention plan
DfE on track to miss teacher recruitment targets, again NFER analysis predicts secondary target miss despite improving picture, and worsening primary recruitment as crisis reaches ‘critical state’
Supply teachers plan Post Office-style legal action to take down umbrella companies The National Supply Teachers Network to take group litigation over unlawful salary reductions and missing holiday pay
New guidance to help schools tackle harassment of staff But union said ‘we also need a clear message from government that aggression towards school staff will never be tolerated’
The problems (and solutions) for teacher recruitment and retention Key findings from three new EEF studies on teacher workload, flexible working and school leadership