Guest blog: Ben Holtom, RecQuest Ltd With over a decade of experience in education recruitment working for some of the largest National brands, I specialise in helping schools and Multi Academy Trusts optimise their hiring strategies, reduce costs, and build strong talent pipelines. As the founder of RecQuest, an new and independent consultancy, [...]
Summary The UK education sector is facing a significant recruitment and retention crisis across all settings, caused by a number of factors. The current challenges include a shortage of qualified teachers, high turnover rates and longstanding unfilled jobs that mean that recruitment, once something that happened periodically, is now a year round task, [...]
Schools across the UK have been facing a severe short term staffing shortage this winter. So much so that the DfE even launched a brief campaign to encourage former teachers back into the classroom, on a supply basis, to support continued in-person provision. But it hasn’t been enough to ensure continuity of provision across [...]
In this insightful guest blog, inspirational Head Teacher and Educational Consultant Paul Mundy-Castle shares his views on how to create a welcoming and supportive environment for new recruits in your school. The most important component of any school, I believe, is the staff body -- especially the teachers, who play such a pivotal role [...]
With stress levels thoroughly tested throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and 35% of teachers recently reporting they would “definitely” not be in education by 2026, schools need to prioritise maximising teachers’ wellbeing now more than ever. We look at what school leaders can do to turn the tide on this challenging outlook. Back in 1930, economist [...]
