Workforce
The latest news and analysis on the school workforce in the UK and at international schools, including teacher recruitment, retention and shortage subjects
Wednesday
24th Apr 2024
Cosla: Maintaining teacher numbers will ‘greatly impact pay offer’
Councils also hit out at government promise to reduce class contact time, saying it ‘undermines the opportunity to include it in any negotiations’
Claire Burton takes the lead at DfE Regions Group
London regional director steps in as acting director general of the Regions Group while John Edwards takes leave for health reasons
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Friday
19th Apr 2024
Teacher recruitment targets not changed in Scotland
Government wants to train 4,000 student teachers next year, yet many new primary teachers can’t get permanent jobs and secondary courses are drastically undersubscribed
The two sides of Geoff Barton
In seven years at the helm of the ASCL, Geoff Barton has been one of education’s most prominent figureheads – but now, embarking on a new challenge, he tells Tes that he sees himself very differently to his public image
3 in 4 primary schools having to cut TAs
The number of schools having to cut teachers and teaching assistants because of funding difficulties has been branded ‘disgraceful’