Workforce
The latest news and analysis on the school workforce in the UK and at international schools, including teacher recruitment, retention and shortage subjects
Monday
9th Oct 2023
Labour still ‘working on’ how to recruit 6,500 more teachers
Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Bridget Phillipson also said Gillian Keegan has become a ‘one-woman attack ad factory’
Call for maximum 35-hour week for teachers
Union wants a ‘New Deal for Teachers’ including ‘real-terms pay restoration’ and action to cut workload and improve teacher-pupil ratios
Friday
6th Oct 2023
‘We must do more for teacher-fathers’
For the final piece in the series looking at how parenthood impacts teachers, Emma Sheppard discusses how conditions for teacher-fathers and partners can be improved
Is the end nigh for performance-related pay?
Wales dropped PRP for teachers in 2020 in favour of yearly pay rises. Could England follow suit? Grainne Hallahan follows the money
Thursday
5th Oct 2023
Sunak’s A-level plan drawn up on ‘back of envelope’
Shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell accuses Rishi Sunak of announcing a ‘back-of-the-envelope policy’ while school roofs are ‘literally propped up’
MATs worried about financial stability
Less than half of multi-academy trusts are confident about their long-term finances, research shows
How education theory can guide staff wellbeing
When this trust wanted to boost its staff wellbeing policies to aid retention and recruitment, it realised it had the perfect model at its fingertips
School budgets ‘stagnate’ as increased costs use up funding
Special schools in particular may see increased cost pressures as they fund pay increases for more support staff, warn researchers