Sentences with phrase «teacher recruitment and retention crisis»
She said: «The teacher recruitment and retention crisis is serious and growing, with schools struggling to get teachers with the right qualifications in front of classes in subjects vital to our country's economic success.
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Pupil numbers continue to grow, but the teacher recruitment and retention crisis intensifies as the government continues to attack teacher pay and conditions.
Responding to the supply teacher figures, Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers» union, said: «There can not now be any doubt that schools are in the midst of a serious teacher recruitment and retention crisis, driven by the adverse impact of the government's policies on the school workforce.»
«We also desperately need a solution to the teacher recruitment and retention crisis which is driving up the use of supply teachers.
Teaching, however, does not usually operate like this, and it is no secret that we are in the throes of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
«There is a teacher recruitment and retention crisis caused by the coalition's relentless attacks on teachers» pay, pensions and conditions of service,» said its general secretary Chris Keates.
And if Damian really wants to do something about the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
The Government must restore the value of school staff pay to 2010 pre-austerity levels, starting with an immediate and fully - funded 5 % pay increase for teachers to address the growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
He said the problem was exacerbated by a «teacher recruitment and retention crisis» and the «underfunding of schools».
Teachers unions say the amount of money spent reflects a «serious teacher recruitment and retention crisis».
The teacher recruitment and retention crisis driven by excessive workload is resulting in head teachers struggling to fill posts and having to make do with teachers taking subjects that are not their speciality.
We are in the middle of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
«Workload is driving the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Following this year's «Shaping CPD» conference, held at the University of Cambridge in April 2016, IRIS Connect have published a new report addressing the UK's teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
The Government must restore the value of school staff pay to 2010 pre-austerity levels, beginning with an immediate five per cent pay increase for teachers to address the growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Chris added: «The teacher recruitment and retention crisis will not be resolved by continuing to pursue a policy that allows schools to pay teachers as little as they can get away with.
«We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.»
«However, addressing this discrimination is only one part of the solution to the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Proposals to raise the minimum salary threshold for migrant workers will exacerbate the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has warned.
Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
And Elizabeth Stafford, director of Music Education Solutions, agrees that problems with teacher recruitment and retention will grow this year: «The teacher recruitment and retention crises looks set to continue, and I anticipate a downturn in the number of pupils taking arts GCSE and A-level.»
2016 has left us with a number of crucial issues to consider and address, including: the impact that Brexit may have on education; the government's plans for academisation and the subsequent U-turn on the plans; the reintroduction of grammar schools; and the continuing teacher recruitment and retention crises.
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«At a time of a crisis of teacher recruitment and retention, the Government must now take seriously the issues raised by supply teachers, who are the backbone of the schools system.
«The Government's continued policy of public sector austerity has driven thousands of teachers out of the profession and left schools at the mercy of the deepest recruitment and retention crisis since the Second World War.
«In addition, the threatening mood music around this legislation of sacking head teachers will do nothing to raise standards as it will simply fuel the recruitment and retention crisis.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «At a time of a crisis of teacher recruitment and retention, the Government must now take seriously the issues raised by supply teachers, who are the backbone of the schools system.
The class size question is closely linked to teacher recruitment and retention, both of which were widely regarded as being in a state of crisis in the late 1990s.
«The Government must take the necessary steps to address the crisis it has created in teacher recruitment and retention.
«The current crisis in the recruitment, retention and morale of the teacher workforce is a further issue on which Ofsted and the NASUWT agree has real potential to undermine the ability of schools to meet the educational needs and entitlements of all children and young people.
«Given the current recruitment and retention crisis, the introduction of needless barriers to the employment of overseas trained teachers makes no sense.»
Given the current recruitment and retention crisis, the introduction of such needless barriers to the employment of overseas trained teachers makes no sense.
«It is no wonder they have created a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention when they are asking teachers to take real terms pay cuts year after year.
As reported by Tes, shadow secretary Angela Rayner has said that the failure of average wages to keep up with inflation has made the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention worse.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: «After seven years of government - imposed austerity, teachers need and deserve a decent pay rise, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is essential in tackling the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis.
«The Government's own evidence confirms that the crisis in teacher retention and recruitment is a direct result of excessive workload coupled with real - terms cuts to teachers» pay.»
We welcome the measures already taken to address the supply crisis, particularly: the removal of caps on most recruitment to ITT programmes; the relaxation of skills test requirements; efforts to reduce teacher workload; the continued payment of ITT bursaries; and the introduction of some retention incentives.
So, whilst it's certainly not the silver bullet that we all wish we had to solve the crisis within teaching, more strategic use of data within workforce planning could and should be helping schools and MATs to improve their teacher recruitment and retention, and to drive performance.
This, added to the apparent education funding crisis, teacher retention and recruitment issues, means many schools are potentially feeling the pressure to save money where they can.
«Supply teachers are a vital resource for schools especially in the light of the current recruitment and retention crisis.
The report warns the government that action must be taken on teachers» pay to help reverse the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
«At some stage the government is going to have to get real about understanding we have a significant crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
Whether Nick Gibb chooses to acknowledge it or not, teacher recruitment and retention is in crisis in England.
Teacher recruitment and retention is perilously close to crisis.
«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.
Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that in the context of the «ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention», the government would be «well - advised to consult with teacher training institutions, and take a hard look at whether the tests are assessing skills of a kind which it is absolutely essential for teachers to attain».
The National Education Union is calling for a significant pay increase for teachers to help address the growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, pay teachers fairly and help deliver the best possible education for pupils.
Increases in class size mean less individual attention for children, but they also increase workload for teachers and support staff — driving more people away from teaching and intensifying the recruitment and retention crisis that has developed.
«These outcomes are particularly impressive given that there is a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, and severe funding pressures.
Combine this with the present recruitment and retention crisis of teachers, and this apprenticeship scheme is merely a way of employing under qualified, under specialized people in the role of «teacher» for a great deal less money.
Addressing this crisis effectively is going to take research - based teacher recruitment and retention strategies supported by the state and adapted to each district's specific needs.»