Workforce

The latest news and analysis on the school workforce in the UK and at international schools, including teacher recruitment, retention and shortage subjects

Friday

14th Mar 2025

Teacher retention payments miss schools in worst-hit areas
Extra payments are failing to reach some schools in areas where a significant amount of lessons are being taught by non-specialists, ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis finds
Teacher retention payments miss schools in worst-hit areas
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Thursday

13th Mar 2025

Teacher pay should rise by more than 3%, say experts
Pay should then increase by more than 6% from 2026-27, according to the National Foundation for Educational Research
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Wednesday

12th Mar 2025

Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust appoints new chief executive
Sharon Mullins takes over from founder Anne Dellar, who is retiring in the summer
Sharon Mullins is the new chief executive of Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust.

Saturday

8th Mar 2025

Number of Scottish schools sharing a headteacher triples
Conservatives argue that in most cases shared headships are ‘detrimental to schools and pupils’
Number of Scottish schools sharing a headteacher triples, figures show

Wednesday

5th Mar 2025

Behaviour overtakes workload as a top concern for primary teachers
Teachers in primary are also more worried about support for pupils’ social, emotional and mental health needs, research shows
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Tuesday

4th Mar 2025

More than 4 in 5 heads suffer abuse from parents
The NAHT warns that its members are facing increasing abuse including threats, online trolling, discrimination and violence
More than 4 in 5 heads face abuse from parents

Friday

14th Feb 2025

MAT defends extending day plan after strike threat
Outwood Grange Academies Trust says its current day falls short of the expected 32.5-hour weekly minimum
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Cut teaching jobs to save Scotland £500m, says IFS
But teaching union warns that cutting teacher numbers would be a ‘false economy’ that would ‘damage life chances’
Cut teaching jobs to save Scotland £500m by 2040, advises IFS report

Thursday

13th Feb 2025

Scotland’s biggest council backs down over planned teacher cuts
A strike planned for next week has been suspended as Glasgow says future cuts to teaching posts will not go ahead and that it will increase teacher numbers
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‘Talking up the profession’ sounds hollow without action
If we want to change perceptions of teaching then real change is needed – from pay to professional respect, says the NAHT’s James Bowen
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Wednesday

12th Feb 2025

Estyn: Welsh secondary attendance rate ‘stubbornly low’
Welsh secondaries’ struggles to recruit teachers are ‘impacting the quality of education’, finds schools inspectorate’s annual report
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Tuesday

11th Feb 2025

Arts teacher shortages hit deprived schools twice as hard
Nearly half of schools in the most disadvantaged areas are unable to offer one of the arts subjects owing to teacher shortages, poll finds
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