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9 key findings from the 2022 school workforce census

Record number of teachers quit, vacancies rocket and sickness soars – everything you need to know about the state of the school workforce

Record rate of teacher departures as 40,000 quit sector last year

New workforce data for 2022 shows 7,800 more teachers quit the profession for reasons other than retirement

School vacancies up two-thirds on pre-pandemic 2019, data suggests

Figures shared with Schools Week show schools advertised more than 100,000 roles last year

Drop in new teachers securing jobs, and 5 more findings from ITT data

The number of newly qualified teachers securing jobs in state schools saw a sharp drop during the pandemic, official figures show. Newly-published initial teacher training data for 2019-20 shows aspiring primary teachers taking the hardest hit as stagnating birthrates also hit recruitment. The Department for Education figures also lay bare the differing pass rates and […]

Teacher departures down 17% during pandemic, plus 4 more school workforce findings

Teaching’s increasingly young and diverse workforce continued to grow last year as staff departures slumped during Covid, new figures show. The Department for Education published its annual ‘school worforce in England’ data on Thursday, based on the November 2020 school workforce census. Here are the key findings. 1. Teacher numbers rise as staff stay […]

DfE leans on MATs to boost teacher job vacancies website take-up

The government plans to boost take-up of its free teacher job vacancies website by leaning on the big academy trusts to ditch “expensive” commercial deals. Contracts seen by Schools Week reveal a three-stage plan to create a “behaviour change” and persuade schools and job seekers to use the government-run teaching vacancies website, launched two years […]

Headteacher vacancies fall despite Covid exodus fears

Fears of a Covid-fuelled mass exodus of headteachers this summer may be wide of the mark, although new figures suggest more leaders left their jobs earlier in the pandemic. The government was warned about a “post-Covid exodus” of headteachers after a poll last year found nearly half were less than likely to remain in the […]