Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 15
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Teacher recruitment efforts overly focus on graduates, neglecting other potential groups.
Conclusion
The Department’s recruitment efforts currently focus heavily on new graduates. However more needs to be done to encourage recruitment from other groups. There should be more and clearer pathways for groups such as non-graduates, former military personnel and those interested in changing their career to teaching at a later stage of their life and returning former teachers who want to return to the role.
Government Response Summary
The government commits to implementing an updated training framework and programme for Early Career Teachers from September 2025, but does not address the recommendation for more and clearer pathways into teaching for diverse recruitment groups.
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Government Response
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HM Government
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We are committed to providing Early Career Teachers (ECTs) with a high- quality evidence-informed training programme as they embark on their teaching career. As a first step, from September 2025 we are implementing an updated framework and training programme which will address many of the points identified in this report including duplication from ITT, by introducing a combined framework and guidance for providers on progression. We are also increasing the requirement on our training providers to develop subject specific training materials to support ECTs to relate their training directly to their own context. As the evidence base evolves, so too do the experiences and needs of trainees and ECTs, which is why we are committed to continuous improvement and to review the experiences and needs of ECTs as well as trainees. We regularly engage with training providers and Teaching School Hubs to share best practice and respond to feedback and evaluation findings to iterate delivery of the programme on an ongoing basis.