Tes Institute Blog

As school trusts face staffing challenges amongst the UK’s teacher retention crisis, it’s more important than ever for schools and trusts to explore new ways of developing teaching talent. Explore the role partnerships can play in supporting professional development for teachers and how trusts can build them effectively.

Providing teachers with a clear career development pathway supports staff retention and recruitment. Explore the findings of our ‘Grow your own’ report to learn how developing clear career pathways can benefit your trust – and what you can do to get there.

Inclusion is increasingly a priority for schools and trusts, as well as the UK government. Explore how trusts can use continuing professional development and teacher training to support and improve inclusion in their schools.

Mentoring is a part of many trusts’ professional development offer. But how can you be sure it’s effective? Here’s what we learnt from talking to UK trusts and trust leaders about embedding a successful mentoring culture.

All trusts have some form of professional development offer – but how can you be sure yours is making a difference in the classroom? Learn what trusts across the country told us is the key to ensuring professional learning has a real impact on outcomes.

We spoke to trust leaders across England about what teacher training and professional development looks like for them. This blog explores our findings, examining what makes teacher training and professional development delivery successful and how trusts can make it work alongside busy teacher schedules.

What role does personalised learning play in stabilising your trust’s future? Explore the findings of our recent report for multi-academy trusts and learn how you can balance personalisation with trust-wide consistency.

Developing teaching talent is key for multi-academy trusts in driving retention and motivation – both of which ultimately support a trust's future. Learn how you can ensure your trust's professional development and teacher training offer produces consistent results.

Our recent report explores best practice for developing teaching talent in school trusts. This blog explores the key strengths we found, as well as the professional development and training challenges MATs face in 2026.

As teacher recruitment and retention become increasingly essential for schools and trusts, it’s important we look at new ways to attract and retain staff. This blog explores how focusing on staff development can be more effective than traditional recruitment methods.

Teaching apprenticeships offer schools a practical and well-funded approach to develop new and existing staff. This blog explores all you need to know about offering apprenticeships at your school or trust.

As the education sector continues to prioritise teacher recruitment and retention, it’s important to look at new ways of finding and nurturing talent. School apprenticeships are an increasingly popular route into teaching with a range of benefits – this blog explores how taking on an apprentice helps schools.

Tes Institute’s international Qualified Teacher Status (iQTS) course has received a Grade 1, the highest possible grade, in its recent inspection. The report praised the course’s leadership, programme design and delivery, highlighting key strengths in intensive training and practice (ITAP) and external moderation.