The Education Committee is calling on the Government to invest in programmes to boost recruitment, as schools across England are having to drop entire subjects.
Their report shows that hiring targets are being missed across the sector, which has been blamed on heavy workloads and behavioural problems in lessons.
Teacher training courses missed their enrolment target in ten subjects last year.
The lowest recruitment was in business, physics and music.
“Young people deserve high quality education”.
Daniel Kebede, National Education Union
How is it affecting students?
Chair of the Education Committee and Conservative MP, Robin Walker says the shortages mean “that children are being taught by non-specialists” and therefore “missing out on the best education”.
General Secretary of the National Education Union, Daniel Kebede believes investments need to made to reflect what pupils need.
“There has been an exponential rise in pupil need such as mental health issues coming out of the pandemic and there is not the support or funding in place”.
Teacher workloads
The Department for Education’s report in 2022 ‘Working Lives of Teachers’ found that 92% of teachers leave due to workload.
Mr Kebede said this pressure on workload is “due to new high stake accountability”.
Whilst 57% said it was due to pay.
General Secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union, Dr Patrick Roach said that “teachers pay has declined by up to 30% in the last ten years”.
“Underfunding, unrealistic levels of bureaucracy, and escalating challenges related to pupil behaviour and wellbeing are all pushing teachers’ workloads to catastrophic levels”.
Dr Roach said that teachers “need a government that is willing to step up, restore pay, and tackle the real drivers of workload”.
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StandfirstMPs say the government needs to invest more in both recruitment and retention.
The Education Committee is calling on the Government to invest in programmes to boost recruitment, as schools across England are having to drop entire subjects.
Their report shows that hiring targets are being missed across the sector, which has been blamed on heavy workloads and behavioural problems in lessons.
Teacher training courses missed their enrolment target in ten subjects last year.
The lowest recruitment was in business, physics and music.
“Young people deserve high quality education”.
Daniel Kebede, National Education Union
How is it affecting students?
Chair of the Education Committee and Conservative MP, Robin Walker says the shortages mean “that children are being taught by non-specialists” and therefore “missing out on the best education”.
General Secretary of the National Education Union, Daniel Kebede believes investments need to made to reflect what pupils need.
“There has been an exponential rise in pupil need such as mental health issues coming out of the pandemic and there is not the support or funding in place”.
Teacher workloads
The Department for Education’s report in 2022 ‘Working Lives of Teachers’ found that 92% of teachers leave due to workload.
Mr Kebede said this pressure on workload is “due to new high stake accountability”.
Whilst 57% said it was due to pay.
General Secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union, Dr Patrick Roach said that “teachers pay has declined by up to 30% in the last ten years”.
“Underfunding, unrealistic levels of bureaucracy, and escalating challenges related to pupil behaviour and wellbeing are all pushing teachers’ workloads to catastrophic levels”.
Dr Roach said that teachers “need a government that is willing to step up, restore pay, and tackle the real drivers of workload”.
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