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The 6,500 teacher recruitment pledge may not be enough

A delivery plan is urgently needed setting out how the Department for Education means to achieve its pledge to recruit 6,500 teachers by the end of this Parliament, the National Audit Office has said.
Crisis point? Between 2015/16 and 2023/24, secondary teacher numbers increased by 3% to 217,600, but student numbers rose by 15% to 3.7 million. Meanwhile, only 8,700 newly qualified teachers started work in 2023/24, the lowest number since 2010/11 - Adobe Stock

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