The long-awaited schools white paper presents the sector with lots of opportunities Schools are missing out on a vast pool of untapped talent by thinking rigidly about where teachers come…

Experts slam ‘unreasonable’ short-notice cuts to trainee chemistry courses More top-up teacher training programmes have been cut at short notice following a ministerial budget squeeze. Providers were given under 24…

This year, NFER’s annual review of the education workforce in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is more comprehensive than ever. Alongside our eighth annual report on the teacher labour…

Teacher Development Trust is becoming part of the Chartered College of Teaching this summer, which means our mission and research have a new home! Here’s a handy guide which includes…

Mentor capacity under strain Over two thirds of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers have reported that mentors in their organisation have insufficient time within their workload to fulfil mentoring responsibilities…

Across the sector, schools are taking meaningful steps to make recruitment fairer, more transparent and easier for teachers to navigate. New national research commissioned for the Department for Education’s Teaching…

In my previous post, I noted the increase of nearly 6,000 I the number of candidates applying for a place on a graduate teacher preparation course. Up from 21,436 in…