The government has been accused of being in “ostrich-like denial” of the real-terms cuts to teachers’ salaries and of being too “defensive” around the scale of the teacher shortage facing schools.
It comes after the Department for Education (DfE) published its official response to the House of Commons Education Select Committee’s recent investigation into recruitment and retention issues.
In their final report, published in February, MPs on the committee said the government “lacks a coherent long-term plan” to effectively address teacher shortages.
The DfE has missed its targets for recruitment to initial teacher education for the last five years and this year geography, biology and history were the only secondary subjects that exceeded their targets.
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