A report published by the The Gatsby Foundation has outlined eight evidence-based interventions that secondary schools can implement to help retain and recruit high-quality teachers in their science departments.
England’s teacher recruitment crisis is particularly acute in science, especially given that the secondary age pupil population is set to rise by 19 per cent by 2026 with associated increases in pupils entering the single science GCSEs.
Department for Education (DfE) initial teacher training recruitment figures show that physics has missed its recruitment targets for the last three years (2016/17 to 2018/19), meaning only 2,105 teachers have been recruited against a target of 3,329. A shortfall of 1,224.
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