In January 2019, a Department for Education (DfE) survey of more than 3,000 people considering teacher training found more than half would probably or definitely change career if they could.
Around the same time, the government published its Teacher recruitment and retention strategy (DfE, 2019), recognising what we already know – there is a competitive labour market, teacher retention is a growing challenge, retention issues are most acute for early career teachers (ECTs), and a key challenge is the UCAS application process being difficult, particularly for career-changers.
Additionally, initial teacher education (ITE) recruitment targets had been missed, retention rates of ECTs had fallen considerably between 2012 and 2018, and around half of postgraduate ITE trainees are career-changers.
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