Teacher Recruitment and Retention 2020-01-20
2020-01-20
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The Minister provided data on teacher recruitment and retention.
What assessment he has made of trends in the level of teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention. That means that one third are leaving, which is a high attrition rate. We know that pay freezes are one reason for that, but also the crushing workload.
Since we conducted the workload challenge survey in 2014, we have worked hard to reduce the unnecessary demands on teachers' time, whether that is cumbersome marking practices or excessive data collection. Since 2016, teachers' working hours have fallen by five hours per week.
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