We recognise the need to use all available options if teacher recruitment is going to increase in England. This must include international teachers, and efforts should be made to ease the pathway for international teachers to be recruited and to teach in English schools. For the teaching of Modern foreign languages, an English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subject in which the department has consistently missed its recruitment target, this is an essential part of the teaching recruitment cohort and t...

We recognise the need to use all available options if teacher recruitment is going to increase in England. This must include international teachers, and efforts should be made to ease the pathway for international teachers to be recruited and to teach in English schools. For the teaching of Modern foreign languages, an English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subject in which the department has consistently missed its recruitment target, this is an essential part of the teaching recruitment cohort and there appears to be no rationale for cutting it off. Type: conclusion | Number: 22 | Paragraph: 99 | Response status: not_addressed