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Today, Thursday 9th June 2022, the Department for Education has released the latest data on the school workforce, collected in November 2021. Commenting on the proposals, James Zuccollo, Director for School Workforce at the Education Policy Institute (EPI), said: …
By Education Policy Institute
On Monday 14th March, the OECD launched the latest Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) Report, assessing the allocation of high-quality teachers and access of students with different socio-economic backgrounds to good teachers. Commenting on the report, James Zuccollo, Director…
By Education Policy Institute
One year ago, in response to surging teacher recruitment, the government decided to cut financial incentives for teacher training. It dramatically reduced the bursary payments that are made to trainees and eliminated the retention payments made to teachers in the…
By James Zuccollo
Today [Wednesday 6 October] in his speech at the Conservative Party Conference, the Prime Minister announced a £3,000 ‘levelling up premium’ to incentivise teachers into high-need areas. Responding to the Prime Minister's announcement on teacher pay incentives, Natalie Perera, CEO…
By Education Policy Institute
A new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI), commissioned by Wellcome, finds that giving teachers a formal entitlement to high-quality training and development would only cost the government an extra £210m in funding a year. When added to existing…
By James Zuccollo and Education Policy Institute
A year ago, the main concerns for teacher recruitment were that there were too few jobs and placements to accommodate all those who wished to teach. Graduates were flocking to teacher training and existing teachers were staying put. The damage…
By James Zuccollo
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While Covid-19 and the accompanying recession have boosted teacher training applications, at the same time, the pandemic has also generated a variety of new pressures on the existing teaching workforce. Using new survey data, Joshua Fullard looks at how the…
By Education Policy Institute
EPI Senior Researcher Joshua Fullard blogs on how teacher pay policy in England could be reformed to improve recruitment and retention in the profession. In its simplest form, wages are determined by the demand for, and supply of, labour. Specifically, jobs that…
By Education Policy Institute
This report from the Education Policy Institute, funded by the Gatsby Foundation, examines the current supply of teachers in England, and considers whether reforms to pay policy, particularly at a local level, may lead to improvements in recruitment and retention. …
By James Zuccollo and Education Policy Institute
Providing teachers with a right to high-quality training and development would boost pupil attainment and earnings, and may tackle retention problems in the profession, a cost-benefit analysis study from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) commissioned by Wellcome has shown. While…
By James Zuccollo and Education Policy Institute
Teaching is a female dominated occupation across the OECD . While men have, historically, been overrepresented in senior positions , the school workforce in England is no different. The latest data shows that the school workforce is becoming even more female…
By Education Policy Institute
The Problem Each year 30,000 graduates enrol onto initial teacher training programs. While these new entrants make an important contribution to the profession, according to the DfE’s Teacher Supply Model (TSM), there are simply not enough of them going into…
By Education Policy Institute
