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Diary of a headteacher: A leadership recruitment challenge

Much is said about the recruitment and retention problems when it comes to teachers, but similar problems are emerging for headteachers as well…

The current teacher recruitment crisis is a well documented issue that has plagued our education system for the past decade.

Recruiting talented teachers in certain subjects can be extremely difficult and even the most successful schools will find themselves with a shallow pool of candidates for teaching vacancies. If you throw into the mix a number of challenging factors that a school might be experiencing, such as a “less than good” Ofsted rating, a falling roll, financial notice to improve or declining results, then the school becomes a far less attractive prospective employer for the few candidates that might consider an application.

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