Will £30k starting salaries make teaching competitive with other graduate jobs?
Our analysis suggests that they will
How many leaders does a secondary school need?
Comparing the size of leadership team that schools in different parts of the country have
10 key findings for secondary school teachers from TALIS 2018
With findings on pay, working hours, job satisfaction and CPD
10 key findings for primary school teachers from TALIS 2018
With findings on pay, working hours, job satisfaction and CPD
Four reasons why female teachers are paid less than men
New analysis of the School Workforce Census and responses to Teacher Tapp survey questions reveals four reasons why the pay gap emerges between male and female teachers.
The gender pay gap in academy trusts
The government's gender pay gap data has revealed huge disparities in how much men and women are paid.
Assessing the use and misuse of Newly Qualified Teachers
Last Thursday at the Festival of Education, Sam Sims and I presented new research from our forthcoming book, The Teacher Gap, on the small number of schools that appear to be knowingly running a recruit-burnout-replace staffing model. The talk was written up by Schools Week and you can read the whole story of these teachers [...]
How many language teachers would we need to reach the Conservatives’ 75% EBacc target?
The Conservatives’ manifesto has revised the party’s commitment to require all students to study the English Baccalaureate subjects at Key Stage 4. It now has a more modest proposal that 75% of students should study the EBacc by the end of the next parliament [PDF]. To be considered to have entered the EBacc a child [...]
Exploring subject background differences in senior leadership pay
In last week’s blogpost we noted that the pay of senior leaders in secondary schools appears to vary systematically according to their subject background. Here we report senior leadership pay in 2010 separately for headteachers, deputies and assistant heads, based on analysis of the School Workforce Census, and look at how it is associated with [...]