The department was also criticised for failing to hit
teacher recruitment target for four years running, with 14 out of 17 secondary subjects left with unfilled training places last year.
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 report also highlights the government has been «consistently» below
teacher recruitment targets for the subjects with the highest turnover rates (science, maths and languages).
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.
Not exact matches
This year, Teach
for America failed to hit recruiting
targets for the third consecutive year; its leaders have attributed the
recruitment troubles to the same dynamics that are driving
teacher shortages in communities nationwide.
The Mental Health and Safeguarding training (MAST) will give frontline professionals including
teachers, police officers, council workers and health and social care workers unprecedented specialised training in understanding gang culture, identifying young people who are gang affiliated, providing them with support services, and knowing the right steps to take when they encounter a young person that may be an easy
target for gang
recruitment.
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.
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.
The Department, however, has missed its
recruitment targets for the last four years and there are signs that
teacher shortages are growing.
«We are continuing to recruit high - quality candidates at primary level and have already exceeded our
teacher training
targets for this year, four months before the
recruitment cycle ends.
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.
Each year the centres are set
recruitment targets for initial
teacher training.
«We have exceeded our
recruitment target for primary
teachers and thanks to our wider reforms are confident we will continue to attract top - quality candidates to this area.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 miss
For the past three years,
recruitment targets for initial teacher training have been miss
for initial
teacher training have been missed.
«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.
«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.
«
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.
There are also not enough special needs
teachers — a situation made worse by the Department
for Education's lack of
recruitment targets and data
for the SEND sector.
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.
His comments came as the Department
for Education published the latest statistics on its
teacher training
recruitment targets.
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.»
In four of the last five years,
recruitment targets for primary
teachers were either nearly - met or exceeded.
These rising pupil numbers and recent reductions in secondary
teacher numbers mean
targets for overall secondary
recruitment have risen.
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.
The report from the cross-party committee, though, says
recruitment targets for teaching had been consistently missed and the
teacher shortage is getting worse.
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.»
In England, head
teachers have warned of a worsening
teacher shortage, with
recruitment targets being missed
for several years running.
Professor Peter Main, director of education and science at the Institute of Physics, said a separate
target for the
recruitment of physics
teachers, distinct from science
teachers, had helped.
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.