The teacher shortage hit the news headlines in the last week of August, just as teachers and pupils were turning their minds to the term ahead with all its challenges and possibilities.
A report by think-tank, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) revealed the scale of the crisis in STEM subjects. The numbers of graduates choosing to train to become teachers are down five per cent across all subjects. Applications to train to teach physics are, alarmingly, 20 per cent down on last year.
But it is not just recruitment which is a massive problem because the numbers of STEM teachers leaving the profession is rising as the number choosing to train in these subjects is falling.
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