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The Department for Education (DfE) published its recruitment and retention strategy last Monday to widespread acclaim. It boasts a supportive foreword from eight leading sector bodies including teacher unions, Ofsted and the Education Endowment Foundation and the central plank -…
By James Zuccollo
Today the Department for Education has published its new strategy for recruiting and retaining teachers. The strategy sets out key areas where focus, investment and reform can have the biggest impact on teacher recruitment and retention. Responding to the new strategy, EPI's Director of School Workforce,…
By James Zuccollo
Today the government has published new census data on initial teacher training (ITT) numbers in England up until 2018. While overall numbers have slightly risen, there appears to be a growing mismatch between supply and demand in secondary school subjects. For…
By Education Policy Institute
EPI's James Zuccollo examines how the Teachers' Pay Grant is allocated to schools, and whether it is done so equitably. In July 2018, the government announced that teachers would get a pay rise after eight years of freezes and caps. The…
By James Zuccollo
A recent EPI report on the state of the teacher labour market showed that there was strong evidence for providing salary supplements to teachers to alleviate shortages in subjects such as maths and science. Sam Sims, researcher at UCL Institute…
By Education Policy Institute
This report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) assesses the state of the teacher labour market in England. The research considers the latest trends in the profession, and examines the latest figures on how highly-qualified teachers vary across different subjects, areas in…
By Education Policy Institute
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After months of delays the government has today accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s (STRB) recommendation that teachers’ pay should rise by up to 3.5 per cent, breaking the previous one per cent pay cap. Those in leadership positions will…
By James Zuccollo and Jon Andrews
Statistics released today by the Department for Education show that teachers continue to leave the profession at a growing rate, and there are now fewer teachers in the profession than in the previous year. At the same time class sizes…
By James Zuccollo
The teacher labour market is subject to a high level of churn. In 2016 , around 50,000 teachers left their jobs in state-funded schools in England, to be replaced by around 50,000 new entrants. That makes for about 1 in…
By Education Policy Institute
Latest figures published by UCAS show that the number of people who had applied to initial teacher training up to 18 th December (12,829) had fallen by around a third, compared to the same point in the previous year (19,330).…
By Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published new analysis examining the latest teacher recruitment figures and teacher supply projections. You can download the paper in full here . Key points from the analysis - The Department for Education projects pupil to teacher ratios…
By Education Policy Institute
The House of Commons Education Select Committee has today published a new report on teacher supply, which draws significantly on recent Education Policy Institute research and oral evidence. Part of an Education Committee Inquiry, ‘ Recruitment and retention of teachers…
By Education Policy Institute
