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Student loan reimbursement could keep 2,100 teachers teaching

A student loan reimbursement scheme could boost teacher retention to the tune of around 2,100 teachers a year, a study has suggested.
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Analysis (Tang & Worth, 2024) by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has modelled the likely impact of introducing such a scheme for all teachers in their first 10 years at the chalkface.

Known as a teacher student loan reimbursement, the policy would see the government paying back the amount of money paid by teachers in the previous financial year for their student loan repayments.

In 2018, the Department for Education (DfE) piloted such a scheme for state school teachers in certain shortgae subjects and the analysis draws on these findings.

The NFER analysis estimates that after one year of the scheme there could be around 2,100 additional teachers, “who would have been expected to otherwise leave teaching in the state sector if there was no teacher student loan reimbursement scheme”.

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