As the education sector continues to recover from its two-year battle with Covid, the strength and resilience of the staffroom has never been so important. Yet finding - and keeping - good colleagues is becoming increasingly challenging.
In this free webinar, Tes editor Jon Severs speaks to a panel of ITT experts to look at how improved teacher training can help tackle the retention crisis in schools. You can watch the discussion below…
According to Department for Education pupil projections, numbers in the classroom are set to grow by 20 per cent over the next decade. However, the number of new entrants to the teaching profession has dropped by 23 per cent since the spike of 2020, and a record number are leaving after just one year.
The government has come forward with measures aimed at tackling this turnover - including the Levelling Up White Paper, which includes a proposal to offer retention payments to help schools in new Education Investment Areas keep the best teachers in the highest-priority subjects.
But can the training offered to new recruits better prepare teachers for the classroom and therefore reduce the churn of staff that schools are currently experiencing?
Our expert panel
Ian Hunter, director, Tes Institute
Professor Geraint Jones, founding executive director and associate-pro-vice-chancellor, National Institute of Teaching and Education
Emma Hollis, executive director, National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT)
Jack Worth, lead economist, National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
