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DfE takes control of FE teacher training scheme mid-round

Taking Teaching Further programme brought in-house after one year into two-year scheme

Unions take college teacher recruitment crisis to MPs

They warned ‘pay erosion’ could continue without significant policy changes

Lynette Barrett, chief executive, National Star

From care worker to chief executive, Lynette Barrett has risen up the ranks at National Star, the adult special educational needs college in Gloucestershire. She tells Jess Staufenberg about how to keep staff during a cost-of-living crisis Time clearly flies when you’re a member of staff at National Star. It keeps happening as we walk […]

How can we recruit more talented post-16 and FE teachers?

A new government website and marketing campaign won’t be enough to tackle rising staff vacancies, writes Geraint Jones We’ve seen a lot of justifiable hand-wringing of late about the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention. It comes after the latest government figures showed a worrying 24 per cent fall in applications to initial teacher training […]