Figures from the Department for Education show that nearly 50,000 teachers left the profession in 2013/14 and that there is a 10 per cent shortfall in the numbers entering initial teacher training this year.
It has also been reported that more teachers are leaving to teach abroad than are joining university training courses in England.
It is unsurprising, then, that 63 per cent of school leaders and 42 per cent of governors surveyed by The Key this spring said they had found teacher recruitment challenging to manage over the previous 12 months. The situation has become so serious that Parliament’s Education Select Committee is to explore the issue later this year.
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