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Leadership & staff retention: Improving recruitment and retention (part 5)

CPD Recruitment & Retention Pay and conditions Whole-school issues Teaching staff
Our five-part series on the links between leadership approaches and staff retention and recruitment comes
to a close. In the fifth and final part, Matt Bromley looks at what must change both system-wide and within schools if we are to end the recruitment and retention crisis

If our schools are to succeed, school leaders must secure a rich supply of qualified, high-quality teachers, and – once they’ve entered the classroom – they must invest in them professionally and make them feel valued in order to ensure that, once they enter the profession, they remain in it.

Indeed, this is exactly what the best education systems in the world do. Take, for example, Finland...

I was lucky enough to visit Finland a couple of years ago in order to research their education system and, while in Helsinki, I discovered that teacher education was run exclusively by universities and – unlike in the UK where ITT provision has, by and large, moved away from higher education institutions towards school-based programmes – in Finland there were no such plans to divorce teacher training from universities.

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