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FEATURE FOCUS: RECRUITMENT
A “catastrophic risk” to teacher supply? Inside the shake-up of Initial Teacher Training
2022 began with the news that many in the sector had feared but also predicted some time ago: the release of new Department for Education (DfE) figures which showed the Covid- related spike in applications to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programmes is over, with numbers for ITT down by 23% compared with last year. In March last year the Teacher Labour Market
in England Annual Report, published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), revealed that ITT applications were up 26% suggesting a short-term easing of historic teacher supply problems. But, even then, there were warnings about how that would be “short- lived”, and how important factors such as pay would return to prominence in the medium term. There are, of course, longstanding challenges
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n our first feature this month looking at teacher recruitment and supply, we’re
delighted to hear from Emma Hollis, Executive Director of the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT), who looks at the state of Initial Teacher Training and discusses the challenges ahead.
around teacher recruitment and the Tes Wellbeing Report 2022 (carried out in the second half of 2021) documented the many struggles of the profession at this time, from spiralling workloads to feeling that their voices are not heard and that their roles lack flexibility. Not a great supporting message for anyone who may be interested in a career in teaching. Given the issues around teacher supply,
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a root-and-branch review of ITT provision, which has generally been extremely effective in supplying this country’s schools with around 30,000 new well-trained teachers every year. However, just before Christmas, DfE published
its response to the ITT market review report. The review considered how the ITT sector can provide consistently high-quality training, in line with the Core Content Framework, in a more efficient and effective market. The aim of the review was to make well informed, evidence-based recommendations on how to make sure all trainees receive high-quality training, how the ITT market maintains the capacity to deliver enough trainees and is accessible to candidates, and how the ITT system benefits all schools. The headline is that all existing and incoming
ITT providers need to comply with a new set of quality requirements and that a robust accreditation process should take place to ensure all providers meet these, both at the time of application and ultimately for the start of the 2024-25 academic year when this all kicks in. Within this, specific requirements were confirmed and funding commitment made for the development of intensive training and practice opportunities and to support lead and mentor
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