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Trainee teacher numbers rise by 11%, but secondary target still not met

4 Dec 2025 | Recruitment and retention

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Heads need ‘relational’ skills to manage ‘increasingly complex range of stakeholders’

31 Oct 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Trust’s 9-day fortnight boosted wellbeing, but ‘overwhelmed’ some staff

29 Oct 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Trust offers degree pathway to create ‘children’s workforce’

11 Oct 2025 | Recruitment and retention

1 in 3 secondary heads leave within three years

2 Oct 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Economics and business teacher numbers just don’t add up

6 Sep 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Government lacks ‘coherent plan’ to boost teacher recruitment

9 Jul 2025 | Recruitment and retention

The shapeshifting 6,500 teachers pledge

4 Jul 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Teacher retention payments not as effective as first thought, study suggests

26 Jun 2025 | Recruitment and retention

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Teacher quality warning over DfE recruitment boost plea

20 Jun 2025 | Recruitment and retention

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Mums who return to teaching part-time more likely to stay

6 Jun 2025 | Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

31 May 2025 | Recruitment and retention

DfE chief: ‘We can support schools to be more efficient’

20 May 2025 | Recruitment and retention

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Is teacher recruitment showing ‘green shoots’ of recovery?

2 May 2025 | Recruitment and retention

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Two-thirds of schools using free vacancy website still pay for adverts elsewhere

17 Jan 2025 | Recruitment and retention

Teacher recruitment could be worse than it looks, DfE suggests

11 Dec 2024 | Recruitment and retention

Primary teacher recruitment target missed by biggest gap on record

5 Dec 2024 | Recruitment and retention

Wage rises needed to attract 6,500 teachers would cost £7bn

4 Dec 2024 | Recruitment and retention

Unions urge schools still using performance-related pay to ditch it

1 Dec 2024 | Recruitment and retention

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2 Apr 2024 | Recruitment and retention

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21 Mar 2024 | Recruitment and retention

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20 Mar 2024 | Recruitment and retention

DfE on track to miss teacher recruitment targets, again

20 Mar 2024 | Recruitment and retention

DfE slashes secondary teacher recruitment targets

14 Mar 2024 | Recruitment and retention

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