Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Teacher shortages

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer holding a finger to his mouth

    Keir Starmer on collision course with unions over public sector pay

    PM tells unions to prepare for disappointment despite warnings of a crisis in staffing and recruitment

June 2024

  • Bridget Phillipson

    For me, Ms Haq was the teacher you never forget. But today’s Ms Haqs are quitting

    Bridget Phillipson
  • Aerial image of children eating school meals

    A quarter of state school pupils in England receiving free school meals

May 2024

  • Pupils going to school

    Teachers in England stretched by pupils’ mental and family problems, MPs say

    Education select committee concerned that excessive workload is driving teachers out of profession
  • Boutique by Shelter charity shop in Highgate, London.

    Brief letters
    Pa-rental guidance benefits charities

    Letters: Charging children rent | Keffiyehs and kippahs | A well-oiled cyclist | Sex (and other) education | 100-year mortgages

    • What are Labour’s six pledges and how likely is their success?

    • Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in England

    • The Guardian view on English lessons: make classrooms more creative again

April 2024

  • A teaching assistant with a class of primary school children

    Teaching assistants are the backbone of a crumbling education system

  • Amanda Richards beside a school playground

    Headteachers forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after cuts in England

  • three schoolgirls, seen from behind, sit with raised hands in a classroom while an anonymised adult woman, seen from the side with her head turned away, stands at a whiteboard

    Teaching assistants routinely cover lessons in England and Wales, survey finds

  • A bright primary school room with a small table and bookcases with books.

    English primary schools cutting teacher numbers amid budget pressure, survey finds

  • Jamaica needs teachers, yet England poaches them and classrooms lie empty. How can that be right?

    Gus John

  • Teachers in England and Wales could strike again in September, says NEU chief

  • Teachers: tell us about moving from abroad to a school in England

  • Steep rise in schools in England recruiting teachers from Jamaica

March 2024

  • pupils seen from rear with their hands up as teacher points to whiteboard

    Compensate teachers in England for inability to work from home, report says

  • National Education Union strike action rally in Birmingham

    NEU teachers’ union asks members to consider strike in England later this year

February 2024

  • Tim Coulson, chief executive of Unity Schools Partnership

    Staff absences fell 50% after schools introduced longer half-term break

    Suffolk-based schools trust also found that pupil absences for illness fell 25% after extending autumn holiday

January 2024

  • In 2023, 140,000 children were classed as ‘severely absent’ from school.

    Why 140,000 pupils are ‘severely absent’ from school in England – and what we can do about it

    Redundancies, lack of funding, and a pandemic have all contributed to a huge rise in children missing from class. Now a bold new initiative aims to solve the problem
About 581 results for Teacher shortages
1234...
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：