Opinion: Workforce

Solutions: How to embrace the benefits of flexible working

With the right guidance and recourse to best practice, flexible working as a day-one right could make teaching a...

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Lucy Makins
Opinion: Workforce

What trust leaders say about recruitment and retention

A recent trust leaders' roundtable drew out the key challenges and opportunities for solving this ongoing crisis

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Nav Sanghara and Sufian Sadiq
Opinion: Workforce

Labour must support leaders to improve retention

Regional heat-maps would allow school leaders and policy makers to better respond to local recruitment and retention needs

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Michael McCarthy
Opinion: Workforce

Government must reconnect teachers with their sense of purpose

This year's teacher wellbeing index shows ongoing negative trends made worse by feelings of professional isolation and disempowerment

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Sinéad Mc Brearty
Opinion: Workforce

How to make flexible working work for your school

As the sector moves inexorably towards offer more flexible working opportunities, here are some tried-and-tested approaches and their benefits

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Ashleigh Briggs
Opinion: Workforce

How government can deliver more flexible working opportunities

A planned review of NPQs creates a golden opportunity to use the golden thread of teacher development to mend...

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Professor Samantha Twiselton
Opinion: Workforce

Parental leave must be about more than just maternity

Leaving fathers out from improved policies may serve short-term retention needs but doesnt' go far enough in supporting women's...

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Emma Sheppard
Opinion: Workforce

Retiring makes me a rarity – and that shouldn’t be the case

Sarah Ledger reflects on how the job has changed over her long career, and why those following her out...

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Sarah Ledger
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Teaching’s narrative universe needs a reboot

Teaching has an image problem and fixing it must be a top priority for the government and the sector...

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Tiffany Beck