South of the border, the summer has been dominated with talk of the recruitment and retention crisis in education.
Both the trade and national media have been filled with speculation on the number of NQTs leaving the profession, the number of teachers retiring early and the lack of candidates applying to replace those that are leaving. Mixed with an increase in pupils thanks to a higher birth rate, this is leading, the headlines suggest, to an education crisis.
Even the research that Teacher Support Network commissioned with YouGov in July revealed that a third of all teachers in England and Wales plan to leave in the next five years. This includes teachers across all levels of experience – from NQT through to those who have been teaching for more than 20 years.
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