Bridget Phillipson has committed to hiring 6,500 new teachers to the profession as part of the Government’s efforts to tackle the recruitment crisis.
The programme was scrapped by the previous Conservative government but supporters of the scheme said it had recruited over 1,100 career-change teachers, with 95 per cent placed in shortage subjects and delivered 107 per cent of its Department for Education contracts.
In an open letter, the signatories point out that “while national recruitment targets have consistently been missed”, over-40s are the only recruitment cohort that has seen growth in recent years.
Among those signing the letter is Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, Russell Hobby, chief executive of Teach First and Dame Alison Peacock, chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching.
“ Government funding for this programme should be reinstated in support of our overall ambition of growing and developing our teaching workforce.”
“This isn’t just about bums on seats, career changers concentrate in shortage subjects and the quality and durability of these educators is well proven.
Glyn Potts, headteacher at Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham said that career switchers that join the profession “with broader employment experience … act as the bridge between student ambition and classroom learning”.
The Department for Education has been contacted for comment.
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