Recruiting and retaining high-quality staff is one of the greatest challenges facing schools and educational institutions today.
In the 2023/24 school year, a substantial number of teachers left the profession in the UK, with Department for Education (DfE) figures showing that almost 40,000 teachers quit.
This represents a significant retention crisis, with nearly a third of early career teachers (32.5%) leaving within their first five years; a quarter quit after three (25.9%). See SecEd’s report on the latest figures here.
This is coupled with a recruitment crisis. As we know, only once in the last 10 years has the DfE met its teacher training recruitment targets at secondary level and there are currently around 4,000 vacancies in secondary schools and colleges. Again, SecEd has reported regularly on this issue.
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