Research Projects
Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply
Contact Email: j.cannings@ippr.org
Introduction
The most important factor in raising the achievements of schools in challenging circumstances is a high quality, stable workforce, backed up by exceptional leaders. Yet many of these schools have the most difficulty in attracting and retaining sufficient staff. At the same time the teacher supply market in England is possibly the most deregulated in the world.
ippr aims to address the lack of data on the impact of staff turnover rates on school performance and the reasons why teachers choose to apply to one school over another, or to leave one school for another. The project will aim to respond to two essential policy challenges:
- How can a climate be created to ensure that enough high quality (or potential high quality) teachers want to teach, and stay teaching, in the most challenging schools?
- How can teachers who have made this choice be supported and trained so that they have the resources to do the best possible job, and so that they are motivated to remain in these schools?
Files
Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply - Qualitative Report
Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply - Quantitive Report
Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply Martin Johnson, ippr, 2004
Publications
Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply
This report focuses on a range of issues including pay and workload:
- Initial Teacher Training
- Continuing Professional Development
- Leadership and management
- Pupil behaviour
- Class sizes
- resources.
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