Sentences with phrase «meet teacher recruitment targets»

However, Labour says the government has already failed to meet its teacher recruitment targets.

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Earlier this year, the Public Accounts Committee revealed that the government is spending # 700m annually on recruiting and training new teachers, yet still can not meet its recruitment targets.

The teacher recruitment crisis affects the majority of subjects — six per cent of the 29,787 postgraduate teacher training places went unfilled last year with only history, English and physical education meeting or exceeding their target quotas.

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

Teaching Apprenticeships are proving to be very successful in attracting graduates compared to other Initial Teacher Training programmes, which have failed to meet recruitment targets for five years running.

In the past four years the government has failed to meet its recruitment target for language teachers.

«Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money,» said NAO head Amyas Morse.

Quizzed in parliament on Monday, the permanent secretary of the Department for Education (DfE), Chris Wormald, defended the government's teacher training policies, despite their failure to meet recruitment targets for four years running.

Prof Howson, an honorary research fellow at Oxford University, said although the government met its targets for primary teacher recruitment this year, it missed them the previous year.

In four of the last five years, recruitment targets for primary teachers were either nearly - met or exceeded.

This means 106 % of the primary school target was met, and means that in four of the last five years, recruitment targets for primary teachers were either nearly met (98 % +) or exceeded.

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: «Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money.»