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We are excited to hold a virtual roundtable event with Stone King LLP next Monday, 15th January 2024, at 10:00 am GMT! We will talk about Navigating Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention, addressing some pressing issues in education! Did you know that in December 2023, government data revealed a 50% shortfall in achieving secondary teacher recruitment targets, with primary targets trailing by 4%? Overall, the recruitment targets for both primary and secondary education were missed by 38%, highlighting challenges that demand collaborative solutions.    At the roundtable, we will discuss:   - The missed Government Recruitment Targets  - Flexible Working in Schools  - Recruiting Non-UK Teachers and Trainees Let's work together for a more inclusive and bright future! 

This morning #oxfordgrowthadvisors are at the Oxford May Morning Celebrations - a tradition dating back more than 500 years to herald the arrival of spring. 🌼🌸🌱 Of course, whilst in the UK 1st May is celebrated as May Day, in other parts of the world it's recognised as International Workers' Day or Labour Day - a day to recognise and commemorate the contributions of workers. At OGA, we recognise that at the heart of every successful company is its people. And those people and their contributions often go unrecognised. So, let's use May 1st as a Spring-board (see what we did there?! 😊) to creating work environments where employees feel recognised, valued, supported, and inspired to do their best work. Who's in? #MayDay #EmployeeWellbeing #TechGrowth #SaaSGrowth #OxfordGrowthAdvisors #OxfordMayMorning #MayMorning

I’m looking forward to joining my colleague Sean Reginio and Superintendent Jodi Sepkowski to discuss how to balance human rights obligations, special education and workplace health and safety. #educationlaw #humanrightslaw

📚 A new report outlines how South Cambridgeshire District Council’s four-day week trial has seen £434,000 less spent on agency staff covering hard to fill roles. This has been achieved by filling 10 permanent roles that the Council previously struggled to recruit to - particularly in the Planning Service, where the private sector pays more. This has led to the reduction in spending because directly employing staff in permanent roles is much more cost effective than hiring agency staff that the Council was relying on. The four-day week trial for desk-based staff began in January 2023, to help attract and keep talented colleagues in an incredibly competitive local employment market. This includes staff at Greater Cambridge Shared Planning, a service shared with Cambridge City Council. A trial for crews at Greater Cambridge Shared Waste, another service shared with Cambridge City Council, commenced in mid-September 2023.

‘The challenges of teacher recruitment and retention in England’ The release of this blog from Ofsted today is very timely after the conversations I’ve been having this week around the challenge of staff retention and the impact of diminishing budgets and overwhelming workloads on staff and leaders. Almost a year ago the Annual Report of His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2022/23 stated, “In schools, staff shortages are reducing expert teaching, increasing stress, limiting intervention when children struggle, and creating a barrier to teachers accessing training and development.” However, one year on and, with leaders wearing many hats, covering numerous roles and regularly overworking causing stress and burnout, the climate seems no different. An effective retention strategy not only enables a school to hold onto and maximise the potential of the talent they have, but due to word of mouth it also enhances recruitment opportunities. The best type of retention strategy is based on what staff truly need and the culture they work within. We all know that our staff and leaders make us what we are as a school, so if you’re thinking about how to support leaders and their teams, get in touch by DM to see how we could work together to enable them to thrive in these challenging times.

Latest issue of the Journal of Human Resources Education is out! Article are open access, check them out! https://lnkd.in/e9jwEpKK

⏲ Is it time for you to reexamine your Higher Education Compensation Strategy? Dramatic changes in the labor market and the competitive landscape for talent are causing an upheaval in compensation expectations for faculty and staff. 💰 How have you adapted your compensation strategies to keep pace with these transformative shifts? 👋 Join myself and my colleague Megan Nail, CCP, SHRM-SCP, CEBS, VP of Total Rewards at NFP, on March 13, from 11:00 – 12:00 ET for a NFP webinar for an in-depth discussion on Pay Evolution in Higher Education: Adapting Compensation Strategies to Stay Competitive.

In Panorama Education's edLeader Panel, "Decreasing Absenteeism and Its Effects with Meaningful Strategies," the presenters provided insights into leveraging MTSS and innovative approaches to understand and address chronic absenteeism and attendance barriers. You can find our article on this presentation on the edWeb blog. https://lnkd.in/eMdgn-dV

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