Research Digest December 2025
17 December 2025
The fourth issue of our Research Digest summarises recent reports and blogs, highlighting key findings and recommendations for policy makers and classroom practice.
Reports include:
- Skills Imperative 2035: Creating a system of lifelong learning to provide the essential skills for tomorrow’s workforce
- High-SEND schools: Understanding the uneven distribution of pupils with SEND across England’s mainstream schools
- Pupil numbers and school finances - what do we know about how demographic changes are impacting schools?
- ‘Senior leaders under pressure as pupil numbers fall’ and ‘The state of additional support needs and services in English Schools’
- The Early Years Workforce in England 2025
- Do free schools increase opportunities and reduce disparities in economic and social outcomes?
- The impact of early career retention payments on teacher retention
- Ethnic disparities in entry to teacher training, teacher retention and progression to leadership
- A decade later: Have England’s youngest adults closed the international literacy and numeracy skills gap?
- Technical Education Learner Survey 2024 Research report
- Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2025
- Voices from the Classroom - Understanding how secondary schools support students returning from absence
- Special School Teachers: Where do they come from? Where do they go?
- ChatGPT in lesson preparation - A Teacher Choices Trial
- How to recruit 6,500 teachers? Modelling the potential routes to delivering Labour’s teacher supply pledge
- Evaluation of the early roll-out of the Early Career Framework
- Building a stronger FE college workforce: How improving pay and working conditions can help support FE college teacher supply