It comes as the government
missed its teacher recruitment targets for the last five years, and in 2016 - 17, the number of graduates starting initial teacher training fell on the previous year.
«For the last eight years, you have had a government that has ignored you, and they've pursued their ideological chaos and failed to pay attention to the fallout,» Rayner said, criticising
missed teacher recruitment targets, the retention crisis and rising child poverty levels.
The revelation comes just a week after a National Audit Office report highlighted how the government had
missed its teacher recruitment targets for four years in a row.
The shadow education secretary claims the government is
missing its teacher recruitment targets.
It is the Government that is cutting funding to schools and
missing teacher recruitment targets.
Not exact matches
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: «For three years in a row, David Cameron's government has
missed its own
teacher recruitment targets, creating a crisis situation.
The Department, however, has
missed its
recruitment targets for the last four years and there are signs that
teacher shortages are growing.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of
Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «It is shocking that at a time of rising pupil numbers the Department for Education has
missed its
teacher trainee
recruitment targets for the last four years.
A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has claimed that
teacher shortages in England are growing and the government has
missed its
recruitment targets for four years.
According to a report by the Education Select Committee, the government has
missed recruitment targets for the last five years, and in 2016/17 the number of graduates starting
teacher training decreased.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «This government has created a crisis at every stage of our education system,
missing its own
teacher recruitment targets in five consecutive years while thousands of
teachers are lost from FE.»
Targets for the number of new trainee
teachers in England have been
missed for the third year running, prompting concerns of an intensified
recruitment crisis in schools.
However, the
recruitment of trainee secondary school
teachers is the sector that has fared worst in terms of
missing its
target.
The Government has
missed their own
recruitment targets for the last five years and less than half of England's
teachers last more than 10 years in the classroom.
For the past three years,
recruitment targets for initial
teacher training have been
missed.
«And things are going to get worse, as
teacher recruitment figures for next year show — for a fourth consecutive year — that ministers are set to
miss recruitment targets, including in crucial subject areas like maths and physics.
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.
Teacher shortages in England are growing and the government has
missed recruitment targets for four years, the official spending watchdog has said.
Almost 1 in 5
teacher training places remain unfilled and this is the third consecutive year the secondary
recruitment target has been
missed.
This itself may well underestimate the need for new
teachers, as the National Audit Office points out that it «does not aim to resolve pre-existing
teacher shortages, including those caused by previously
missed recruitment targets».
Labour's shadow minister for schools Nic Dakin said:» There is a
teacher shortage crisis in this country with the highest number of
teachers quitting the profession since records began and the government is regularly
missing their
targets on
teacher recruitment.
«
Recruitment targets are being
missed, school budgets are being cut for the first time in decades and we have thousands more unqualified
teachers teaching in our schools.»
The report from the cross-party committee, though, says
recruitment targets for teaching had been consistently
missed and the
teacher shortage is getting worse.
In England, head
teachers have warned of a worsening
teacher shortage, with
recruitment targets being
missed for several years running.
Teacher recruitment targets missed, vacancies up almost tenfold and a stark warning from key auditors, but still no crisis, according to Nick Gibb.
A report published earlier this month by the NAO says there are «growing
teacher shortages in many areas, with the government having
missed recruitment targets for four years».
A recent report by the National Audit Office said the government had
missed recruitment targets for
teachers in England for four years, but the Department for Education says overall
teacher numbers have risen.