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Special schools recruit fewer teachers direct from training

Special schools recruit fewer teachers direct from training

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More from this theme Recent articles Special schools take in fewer staff directly from teacher training streams and instead “rely” on teachers gaining experience with SEND pupils in mainstream settings, a report has found. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has published the second in a two-part series of reports looking at staffing challenges faced by special schools. It found judt under 20 per cent of teachers joining special schools in 2022-23 came straight from a recent initial teacher training (ITT) route, compared to an average of about 30 per cent joining primary and secondary schools. Instead, the system “seems to rely on teachers developing experience with SEND pupils in the mainstream sector before moving to special schools,” said the NFER. It said “more could be done” within the ITT system to improve the flow of trainees into special schools. Boosting SEND training One “relatively radical option” would be for DfE to set up a specialist ITT route with courses specifically for trainees who want to teach in specialist settings, said the NFER. However, …

England’s planned pay increase for teachers isn’t enough to recruit the 6,500 more the government wants

England’s planned pay increase for teachers isn’t enough to recruit the 6,500 more the government wants

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Before the 2024 general election, Labour pledged in its manifesto to recruit 6,500 new teachers in response to England’s continuing teacher recruitment and retention crisis. Now, this recruitment target is central to the government’s plans to deliver its “national mission” to break down the barriers to opportunity facing children. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), a research charity, recently published a report on the ways that this recruitment target might be reached. The report claims that the government could achieve this target by restoring the relative position of teacher pay to its 2010 level. This would mean pay rises of nearly 10% a year for three years. While supported by the teaching unions, this was always unlikely: the NFER report states that this option would be the most costly to the government. Indeed, the government has proposed a 2.8% rise to teacher pay in 2025-26. But this marginally above inflation pay rise will be unfunded, meaning that schools will not be getting additional money from the government to fund this rise and will have …

Labour pledges to recruit 6,500 new teachers – but research shows the ones we already have need a better deal

Labour pledges to recruit 6,500 new teachers – but research shows the ones we already have need a better deal

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Labour has promised in its manifesto to recruit 6,500 new teachers. As part of a plan to boost education standards, the party intends to pay for these new teachers, in key subjects and hard-to-staff areas, by ending some tax breaks for private schools. The manifesto states that Labour will recruit the new teachers by adjusting how bursaries – tax-free incentives to encourage graduates into teacher training programmes – are allocated. This is broadly a continuation of existing policy. Currently, higher-achieving students and those in shortage subjects, such as physics, get higher bursaries. Possible changes could be to offer even higher bursaries for the most in-demand subjects (increasing the current £30,000 cap), and to offer bursaries in subjects such as business studies that are currently ineligible, despite consistently failing to meet recruitment targets. But there’s a problem. With 43,500 teachers leaving the profession in England last year (one in ten of all qualified teachers), policies focused on early-career teachers risk alienating experienced teachers. After all, it could be argued that the teachers who have remained committed …

Why UK government policies have failed to recruit enough teachers for years

Why UK government policies have failed to recruit enough teachers for years

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England has faced years of teacher shortages, especially in some secondary subjects such as maths, science and technology. Successive governments have tried – and failed – to address these shortages. The Return to Teaching programme, introduced in 2015, was intended to tempt ex-teachers back into service to teach certain subjects at secondary school. The Department for Education spent nearly £600,000 recruiting 27 teachers who met this aim. This was followed by the National Teaching Service, intended to place 1,500 teachers in underperforming schools in areas struggling to recruit teachers. The pilot scheme, implemented in September 2016, was scrapped having recruited only 24 teachers. The 2018 Troops to Teachers scheme, which offered ex-service personnel £40,000 to train as teachers, recruited just 22 people in its first year. Other direct measures to attract people into teaching have included providing new routes into teaching, such as school-led and employment-based training. The government currently offers upfront payments for new teachers in the form of bursaries and scholarships, as well as student loan reimbursement. In 2023-24, £196m is expected to …

University of Southampton in push to recruit 180 new academics by 2025

University of Southampton in push to recruit 180 new academics by 2025

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The University of Southampton is looking to recruit more than 180 new academics over the next couple of years. It’s seeking ambitious researchers and academics to further strengthen its reputation for education, research excellence and enterprise – the university’s ‘triple helix’. Positions are available across all subject levels and at all levels of seniority. There’ll be a particular focus on four key themes – artificial intelligence, sustainability and resilience, decarbonisation, and engineering better health. These have been chosen both to build on the university’s existing strengths and to address important challenges and opportunities facing the world. Vice-chancellor Professor Mark E Smith said: “This is an exciting time to be joining the University of Southampton and our thriving community of internationally recognised researchers and educators. “We’re a successful, ambitious organisation, full of remarkable people achieving incredible things. “This investment in our people shows how determined we are to accelerate our growth. “People are at the heart of all we do – whether that’s through our life-changing research, focused on providing real and positive outcomes for others, …

He once swore off politics. Now, this Georgia activist is trying to recruit people who seldom vote

He once swore off politics. Now, this Georgia activist is trying to recruit people who seldom vote

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ATLANTA (AP) — Davante Jennings cast his first ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Republican Donald Trump’s election that year, he says, turned him from an idealistic college student to a jaded cynic overnight. Jennings walked away from a system he thought ignored people like himself, a young Black man who grew up politically conscious in Alabama but wielded no obvious power. It took nearly six years for him to see that view as self-defeating. Now, at 27, Jennings is not only eager to cast his second presidential vote for Democratic President Joe Biden, but he also is fully invested as an activist, top aide to a Georgia state lawmaker and regular volunteer recruiting would-be voters off the sideline as part of the not-for-profit New Georgia Project. “I was like, I’m not voting for this if it’s all rigged and doesn’t even matter,” he said in an interview. “Now, I can talk to people that have been beaten down by the system and say, ‘I get it. Let’s talk about why …

UK terror threat at the highest level since 9/11 with extremists using Gaza war to recruit | UK | News

UK terror threat at the highest level since 9/11 with extremists using Gaza war to recruit | UK | News

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The threat of a terrorist attack in the UK has risen sharply due to the war in Gaza, according to a warning from senior security officials to MPs. There is a “real risk” of a coordinated attack as well as a lone wolf attack, one insider claimed. Parliamentarians have been told that the war in the Middle East has been a “recruitment advert” for global terror organisations. According to MailOnline, an MP in the know regarding the recent briefings said: “The level of extremist chatter is off the scale. This is something they’ve seen growing and growing. Referring to intelligence from the last fortnight, they added: “It’s like when the Twin Towers came down in 2001, there was a big spike of hate.” The news comes following a warning from former immigration minister Robert Jenrick that intelligence services and police forces are too “stretched” to handle the “cancer of Islamist extremism”. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Jenrick said: “Despite the rise in far-Right activity, the threat still overwhelmingly comes from Islamists.” Security personnel …

Inside the NHL’s push to recruit Latino hockey fans

Inside the NHL’s push to recruit Latino hockey fans

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In the summer, when the temperature in Phoenix’s north valley climbs well above 100 degrees, the heat would rise like a vapor cloud from the asphalt parking lot that hugged Ozzie Ice’s two mini rinks. “You’re trying to keep an ice cube frozen in the oven,” said Sean Whyte, a former Kings winger and hockey director at Ozzie Ice before the rinks were melted for good and the space converted into a rock-climbing gym. Whyte grew up in Canada, where kids played hockey on frozen ponds. The desert, on the other hand, was more conducive to growing cactus than it was to nurturing NHL scoring champions. At least that’s what Whyte thought until the day a wide-eyed half-Mexican third-grader everyone called Papi skated in. “He used to hang out at my rink all day, pretty much every day,” Whyte said, recalling time he spent with Auston Matthews. “All he wanted to do is get on the ice.” The Columbus Blue Jackets’ Brendan Gaunce, left, chases the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews across the blue line …

The UK Government Wants To Recruit TikTok Influencers To Help ‘Stop The Boats’

The UK Government Wants To Recruit TikTok Influencers To Help ‘Stop The Boats’

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TikTok influencers are to be tapped up by the UK government as part of a campaign to crackdown on the number of small boats crossing the English Channel. The Times has reported the Home Office is trying to recruit social media stars in countries that account for a large amount of illegal migration to the UK. The newspaper said TikTokers in Albania, Egypt, Iraq and Vietnam – and later Turkey and India – could be paid around £5,000 to push UK’s new immigration laws and urge their followers not to come to Britain. A Home Office spokesman said: “People smugglers frequently use social media to peddle lies and promote their criminal activities and it is vital that we utilise the same platforms to inform migrants about the truths about crossing the Channel and coming to the UK illegally. “We make no apologies for using every means necessary to stop the boats and save lives.” “Stopping the boats” has been one of Rishi Sunak’s priorities since becoming prime minister. Plans to deport migrants to Rwanda as …

The Traitors ending: Has Harry blown his chances with new recruit and how will the winner be decided?

The Traitors ending: Has Harry blown his chances with new recruit and how will the winner be decided?

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The Traitors’ roundtables are dwindling in numbers, which can only mean one thing. Season two of the hit BBC show, which has kept millions entertained during the long month of January, is finally coming to an end. But how will the show conclude? Will Snake King Harry take home the prize pot? Will Ross avenge his mother? And when is this all set to go down? Find out when the show is ending, and what to expect, here…  Airing three times a week over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we have three episodes left of The Traitors before the show’s finale on 28th January, which will reveal whether the Traitors of Faithfuls will split the cash prize of up to £120,000.  Fans have been loving the show, which has taken on many twists and turns since Paul, Ash and Harry were named as Traitors in the first episode. After being joined by Miles by episode two, the Traitors have been engaging in plenty of traitorous activity themselves, with Ash quickly being spotted as a Traitor and …