How AI is Transforming Product Management Work
Iryna Milchynska offers a fresh perspective on how AI is changing the Product Manager role — and how to balance speed, strategy, and creativity in product work.
The Rise of the AI-Powered Product Engineer: What It Means for Teams, Roles, and Innovation
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.
The Hidden Pattern in Your Supply Teaching Data: Introducing the “Shared Worker” Metric
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.
How many supply staff does it take to run a successful supply service?
By analysing over 100,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: your 'A team' of supply staff doesn't need to be as big as you may think.
Why 87% of Staff Absences Aren’t Emergencies — And What That Means for Your School
By analysing over 90,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: only 12.6% of bookings are made for same-day cover.
Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too
In an era when most of England’s supply provision comes from supply agencies, Norfolk has bucked the trend – and the results speak for themselves. The Norfolk Supply Register (NSR), run in‑house by EducationHR Norfolk and powered by the Teacher Booker platform, offers schools a cost‑effective, values‑led way of sourcing supply that prioritises quality, consistency, [...]
Navigating the Procurement Act 2023: How UK Schools Can Adapt Their Temporary Staffing Approach
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, [...]
Whitepaper: The Need for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in State-Maintained Schools and decentralised MATs in the UK
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, [...]
Reforming the Treatment and Engagement of Temporary Workers in Schools
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 [...]
MATs Summit 2017 – Collaborate, Innovate, Accelerate
Teacher Booker were pleased to attend the recent 2017 MATs Summit, and delighted at the overwhelmingly positive response to our vision and approach to changing the landscape of educational recruitment. Marooned by a placid lake in the Cotswolds, the 200 strong delegation featured MAT CEOs, business managers and head teachers alongside industry experts from [...]