Recruitment to initial teacher training programmes have failed to meet targets for four years running in maths and three consecutive years in science.
This has left schools in England facing a shortfall of more than 1,700 prospective new teachers.
It is part of a wider secondary recruitment crisis, with the latest figures showing that only 82 per cent of teacher places have been filled for the 2015/16 year. Only three subjects (history, English and PE) have hit their targets.
Now a survey of 500 school leaders, undertaken by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has listed 10 suggestions – mainly for ministers – to help tackle the crisis in the priority subjects of physics and maths.
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