Research Digest June 2025
11 August 2025
Our third Research Digest summarises a selection of our most recent research reports and long-form blog posts, highlighting key findings and recommendations for policy makers and classroom practice.
Reports include:
- Ethnic disparities in entry to teacher training, teacher retention and progression to leadership
- The Skills Imperative 2035: Investigating cross-country differences in young people’s skill development and identifying factors associated with high-performance
- 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
- 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
- Impact of Covid-19-related school closures in Key Stage 1 on attainment and social skills of pupils in Year 4 and Year 5 in academic year 2023/2024
- Building a stronger FE college workforce: How improving pay and working conditions can help support FE college teacher supply