Opinion: Workforce

Labour will need to tackle education’s shameful secret

A teacher training entitlement will achieve nothing unless ministers address the elephant in the teacher training room

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Josh Goodrich
Opinion: Workforce

What baseball can teach us about recruitment and retention

The story of how baseball player recruitment was transformed holds important lessons for getting out of our teacher supply...

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Raj Chande
Opinion: Workforce

How a ‘right to disconnect’ could stop teachers turning off

As government proposals to solve the recruitment and retention crisis go, Labour’s early proposals are astute and eminently deliverable

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Toks Olusamokun
Opinion: Workforce

A system-wide retention promise is key to solving the teacher crisis

A new paper suggests a large part of the solution to the crisis is in the hands of school...

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Alice Gregson and Jane Creasy
Opinion: Workforce

How racism steals our safe spaces and scars our lives

Leaders and staff will need to be as vigilant to the lasting effects of racism as we have become...

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Krisha Kay Gandhi
Opinion: Workforce

How Labour can lead a recruitment and retention revolution

The new government has made a good start, but it will take bold, innovative action to end a crisis...

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Dr Gordon Carver
Opinion: Workforce

Schools can now start to experience the joy of flex

Today’s report promises to finally get on top of a retention problem that has been dogging the profession for...

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Jonathan Simons
Opinion: Workforce

Two first steps towards a racially inclusive teaching profession

The latest data on diversity in the teacher workforce is unsurprising - and we can very easily do a...

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Evelyn Forde
Opinion: Workforce

No drama: How Labour can deliver 6,500 extra teachers

These small but meaningful changes are more likely to realise the new government’s ambition than an advertising campaign

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Jane Fletcher