Opinion: Workforce

Labour’s funding decision on pay pits frontline against bottom line

The funding shortfall will mean vital support is lost - but policymakers either don't understand or don't care

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Christopher Tribble
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment crisis: Are we finally turning the corner?

This week’s figures reveal positive signs for the teacher workforce but there’s a long way to go to meet...

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Jack Worth
Opinion: Workforce

The sector has taken another big step in parent-teacher support

Developments at the National Education Union’s conference give hope that we may soon stem the flow of parents out...

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Emma Sheppard
Opinion: Workforce

Retention: What will it take to make more schools ‘sticky’?

The latest evidence to the Teaching Commission lays bare the effects of high-stakes accountability on teacher retention

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Nansi Ellis
Opinion: Workforce

How SEND training is bridging over a troubled mainstream

A new training programme specifically supporting teaching in specialist settings is exactly what the sector ordered – and it’s...

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Harry Paget-Wall Collins
Opinion: Workforce

The solution to soaring CEO pay is there for the taking

Here's how we can flatten the curve of inexorably rising trust exectuve pay - if a minister dares

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Dr Robin Bevan
Opinion: Workforce

It’s official: DfE have no handle at all on workload

And the really bad news is that AI won't save us from it any time soon either

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Thomas Moore
Opinion: Workforce

Education must adapt its pension offer to compete

In straitened times, it's right that we look at every lever to attract and hold onto teachers. Our new...

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James Zuccollo
Opinion: Workforce

We need a better recruitment story than the ‘born teacher’

Our reliance on the attractively simple idea that teaching is an innate skillset is off-putting and misleading

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Pritesh Raichura and Josh Goodrich