Further Education: Recruitment

(asked on 10th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to include further education recruitment in his Department's planned advertising and campaigning.


Answered by
Alex Burghart Portrait
Alex Burghart
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 18th March 2022

As outlined in the Skills for Jobs White Paper, the government is committed to reforming technical education to address skills shortages. To succeed, we need to attract more high-calibre further education (FE) teachers to fill critical vacancies, particularly in key subjects given quality of teaching is the biggest determinant of student outcomes.

The department launched a national recruitment campaign in January 2022 to raise awareness of the opportunities in FE teaching. The campaign is specifically designed to target experienced industry experts in shortage subject areas by encouraging them to share their skills with the next generation. Alongside the campaign we have introduced a new digital service to make it easier for prospective FE teachers to access information and support to guide them through to teaching jobs.

This is the first time we have run a recruitment campaign for FE teachers and we will be using it to inform our plans for future campaigns.

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