Education Business

NEW RELEASE:
EDUCATION BUSINESS 23.08

Championing the teaching profession

Earlier this year, Education Secretary Damian Hinds pledged to tackle teacher workload, drive recruitment and boost the retention of teachers, as well as make sure teaching is regarded as “one of the most rewarding jobs you can do.” So what has been done to attract and retain teachers in the profession?

To help existing teachers and attract new recruits, measures have been put in place to reduce workload. We have seen the DfE commit to ways of making data collection simpler, as well as invest funding into making lesson and resource sharing between schools easier. Hinds also announced a while back that classroom teachers would receive a 3.5 per cent increase, and that flexible working practices would be introduced.

To read a full review of the government measures to ‘champion the teaching profession’, see page 21. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation meanwhile writes about the value of using supply agencies, especially when staff need to be found quickly, on page 19.

Angela Pisanu, editor