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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
call - to - action campaigns — a call - to - action campaign that requires a
target audience to respond in some way provides you with very specific and easily measurable data
on the number of, say, telephone calls or emails, or enrolment applications or responses to
teacher recruitment advertising, remembering that even the lack of response provides data;
Such strategies include
teacher and principal residency programs; differentiated pay plans; human capital data reports; and
targeted recruitment efforts using sophisticated web - based systems and focusing
on the challenge of recruiting and retaining diverse
teachers.
The flexibility provided by ESSA presented an opportunity for states to invest in pipeline - spanning changes that address several components of the teaching profession.48 While most states focused primarily
on one or two aspects of the pipeline to improve in their ESSA plans or addressed challenges and solutions in broad terms, other states presented a more holistic theory of change with
targeted strategies that address the entire pipeline — from the intentional
recruitment of diverse
teachers and more clinical
teacher preparation experiences, to data - driven professional development and career advancement frameworks.
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.
His comments came as the Department for Education published the latest statistics
on its
teacher training
recruitment targets.
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.