Sentences with phrase «difficulty filling vacancies»

Figure 3: Percentage of Schools Reporting Difficulty Filling Vacancies within Specific Disciplines

It will help close the yawning skills gaps reported by frustrated businesses across the UK, who face huge difficulty filling vacancies at every level.»

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Based on the surge in firms reporting difficulties filling job vacancies, we suspect the unemployment rate fell to just 4.2 % in August, with further declines looking likely over the coming months.

The demonstrable difficulty in attracting enough people to train as teachers is unlikely to be offset by an increase in migration to fill teaching vacancies.

So, how can we expect to lose the EU migrant workers and then expect the vacancies this causes to be filled instantly by UK workers — without any difficulties?».

Indeed, schools that need to recruit for January 2016 vacancies are likely to experience the greatest difficulty filling unexpected gaps in the staffroom.

Around four out of 10 secondary principals and one in five primary principals say they have difficulties finding suitable staff to fill vacancies, a new survey indicates.

However, the report notes: «Despite the relatively low numbers of principals reporting unfilled vacancies in individual curriculum areas, there are still fairly large numbers who report that they have difficulties in suitably filling staff vacancies across all areas of the curriculum.»

Of the primary principals who took part in the survey, four per cent reported «major» and 17 per cent «moderate» difficulties in filling the vacancies; for secondary principals the figures were eight per cent and 31 per cent respectively.

Around four out of 10 secondary principals and one in five primary principals say they have major or moderate difficulties finding suitable staff to fill vacancies — with the most common solution being to require teachers to teach outside their area of expertise.

Rural schools were more likely to have vacancies in STEM positions, and were more likely to report difficulty than non-rural schools in filling vacancies for ELL teachers.

Kelly Salas, a former elementary teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools who now works for the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, warns that schools with high numbers of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students are more likely to encounter difficulties in filling teacher vacancies and mostly rely on under - qualified and substitute teachers.

Last year, the National Audit Office warned that difficulties in filling vacancies are adding to the pressure on school budgets, as schools «have to pay a premium for agency and supply teachers».

With an increasing share of teachers leaving the classroom, schools face the challenge of filling more vacancies — the difficulty of which is compounded by national trends of lower enrollment in teacher preparation programs.53

In a candidate - short market, employers are facing a difficulty in securing qualified professionals to fill certain niche vacancies.