DfE Return to Teaching Programme: Guess whether their target was met

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5729 registered their interest in support to return to teaching an Ebacc subject in a secondary school, exceeding the target of 3000.
327 were supported by the programme to return to teaching, less than the target of 650.

The number in permanent posts teaching Ebacc subjects in Nov 2016 was...... 27.

The DfE had a target of 650, so that’s 4% of the target, and 8% of those who went through the programme.

Well done guys. Who next to solve the teacher shortage crisis?

www.tes.com/news/dfe-return-teaching-scheme-hit-just-4-target

Teaching will not be a highly attractive profession for (good) graduates until they a) remove the accountability measures that are driving the current workload or b) cap hours in the classroom at half of the current teaching timetable, to allow people time to do the work required.

Neither is likely.

Ha, and i wonder how much that programme cost in total and on a per head basis for the number of teachers who are currently in the classroom?

I really wonder if a solution is possible. I wonder if it will get so bad and the solutions needed be so signicant that no government is able to address it and a 2 tier system has to emerge of a basic very poor quality minimalist education for most and a better version for those who can pay something towards it. Is the crisis going to be dealt with and a quality education with qualified specialists to teach children provided, or are the government going to decide that just cannot be provided anymore and people have to expect less and receive less. And even if someone is brave enough to try and turn it around and find the funding, how many years will it take to get a to an acceptable level....longer than most of our children will be in school.

How bloody depressing.

I think they are trying to run education down so that the only solution is edtech, in which case the edtech companies will coin it in.

Only problem is that edtech isn’t actually as effective as a teacher.

Of course it isn't, school is about so many things more than just shovelling facts into kids.