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Ministers scrap physics and languages bursaries for foreign trainees

1w | Recruitment and retention
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Government-funded ‘Get into Teaching’ events scrapped by DfE

2w | Recruitment and retention

Trainee teacher need to drop by 23% next year, DfE forecasts

3w | Recruitment and retention

Secondary teacher job adverts hit a historic low as market ‘contracts’

16 Apr 2026 | Recruitment and retention

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

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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

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