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jackworth.bsky.social
Education economist at NFER researching teacher recruitment and retention
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ICYMI - yesterday we published the first part of new research on the workforce in special schools in England. Part 2 featuring further insights will be out next week bit.ly/3EUvXXF

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Today we have published new research on the special schools workforce in England: an under-researched sector that can get neglected and misunderstood in policymaking. Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀 www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor... Thread 🧵👇

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Really important work here by @thenfer.bsky.social

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Simon is a passionate and relentless champion for the specialist sector and his 'What about Special Schools in this?' questioning was part of the inspiration for us pursuing this work. Keep it up 👏

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Government data appears to under-state the extent of teacher vacancies in alternative provision because it combines data with that of special schools, a new report has warned

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Today we have published new research on the special schools workforce in England: an under-researched sector that can get neglected and misunderstood in policymaking. Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀 www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor... Thread 🧵👇

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At this crucial time for teacher recruitment and retention policy, I am hugely looking forward to unleashing NFER's #TLM25 on 13 March and discussing the findings with @mannybotwe.bsky.social and @annacmcshane.bsky.social, chaired by @jonsevers.bsky.social Do join us: bit.ly/3QuDxuP

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Latest applications data shows that teacher training recruitment in England has not improved much since last year, although there are very tentative signs it may be picking up a little Headlines so far this cycle: - secondary up 9% - primary down 2% A thread with some top lines 👇

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A Happy New Year to all of our followers! 🎉 At 5:20pm, our School Workforce Lead @jackworth.bsky.social will be on Times Radio to discuss recent research, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, which looked on how the government could meet its pledge to recruit 6,500 new teachers. [1/2]

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A good few hours spent at the Brutalist Palace, giving evidence on teacher recruitment & retention to Mary Bousted's Teaching Commission

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Can ChatGPT be used to reduce teachers' workload? NFER have a new study out today that provides robust evidence on this timely question The headline answer is YES, which is great But the study is way more interesting than that. A thread on what it found... 👇 www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...

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Can ChatGPT be used to reduce teachers' workload? NFER have a new study out today that provides robust evidence on this timely question The headline answer is YES, which is great But the study is way more interesting than that. A thread on what it found... 👇 www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...

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Our School Workforce Lead, @jackworth.bsky.social, has responded to the Department for Education's proposal for a 2.8% teaching staff pay rise for 2025/26. 👇

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Interesting blog post from @jackworth.bsky.social on graduate teacher supply. My key takeaways: think flexibly around degree content (not just title) when assessing ITT suitability; teaching needs to feel attractive to socially-minded young people. www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/what-r...

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Official data shows recruitment to teacher training in England is a long way below target. Slight improvements on last year, but levels remain below pre-pandemic - 38% below target for secondary overall - 12 out of 17 subjects below respective targets - 12% below target in usually-reliable primary

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What are the routes to delivering Labour's pledge to 'recruit 6,500 new teachers'? Our new analysis out today gives our view on the options available to policymakers In sum: 6,500 is not trivial to achieve & requires a combination of new policies to deliver www.nfer.ac.uk/publications... 🧵👇

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💸 Attracting an extra 6,500 teachers through wage rises alone would cost the government more than £7 billion a year, according to the NFER Full story ⬇️

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What are the routes to delivering Labour's pledge to 'recruit 6,500 new teachers'? Our new analysis out today gives our view on the options available to policymakers In sum: 6,500 is not trivial to achieve & requires a combination of new policies to deliver www.nfer.ac.uk/publications... 🧵👇

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

It’s now five months since Labour won the election, and we still don’t know basic details about its flagship education pledge to deliver 6,500 more teachers (apart from that it will be spread across five years) Luckily @jackworth.bsky.social is still on the case schoolsweek.co.uk/wage-rises-n...

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@squeezyjohn.bsky.social and I have a new album out today! Its available on all the usual platforms + bandcamp.

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Go and see my wife perform on her Christmas album tour, so that none of my solo-parenting efforts are in vain! It's a seriously lovely Christmas album and show too 🙏 👇

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Really interesting work from @jackworth.bsky.social and the NFER team on graduate numbers by subject and what subjects they might go on to teach. Highly relevant to the challenges we face in mathematics teacher supply.

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