The Teaching Workforce: Summary of Research

23 July 2025

This booklet provides a summary of NFER's key research findings and policy recommendations from our in-depth research into issues impacting the teacher workforce from the last 12 months. This covers issues including recruitment, retention, ethnic disparities, bursaries and more, and features results from modelling and forecasting for different policy options.

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