
03 July 2025
New NFER study to explore early years workforce challenges
A new study will explore the key challenges facing the early years workforce in England.
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26 June 2025
Do retention payments for early career teachers work?
School Workforce Lead Jack Worth discusses new analysis of the impact early career retention payments (ECRPs) on teacher retention.
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18 June 2025
Making sense of education in your constituency
Director of Communications Maddie Wheeler outlines how our updated teacher recruitment and retention in England data dashboard helps you to make sense of education in your constituency.
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17 June 2025
Rebuilding and rethinking to effectively address student absence
Senior Research Manager Matt Walker discusses recent research which looked at how schools are currently supporting students returning after absence.
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11 June 2025
NFER comment on Government Spending Review
NFER’s Head of Policy and Practice, Jude Hillary, has responded to today's Government Spending Review.
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11 June 2025
Improve ethnic diversity in teaching to help achieve 6,500 more teachers
NFER School Workforce Lead Jack Worth has blogged after recent research showed how and why improving ethnic diversity would help the government to achieve its target of recruiting 6,500 additional teachers.
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