Recommendation 18

We asked the Department what it was doing to understand why fewer people stay working in the education sector compared with other sectors – 38% of those who had worked within the education sector at some point between the ages of 17 and 29 were still doing so at age 30, compared with 44% in health, 48% in the public sector as a whole and 49% in the private sector. The Department told us it had done some significant work looking at “cross-fertilisation between parts of the education sector”, and that it was considering learning from the health sector on how it could make it easier for people to build careers but accepted that it could do more.46