The Department for Education is establishing International Qualified Teacher Status (iQTS), a new route for overseas-trained teachers to gain qualified teacher status in England without completing traditional initial teacher training. The scheme includes experience-based pathways for early years practitioners and a digital application service launched in February 2023, with ongoing evaluation of uptake and effectiveness.
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The Department should also monitor the attrition of those who receive these payments. This would improve understanding of whether there is a “postponement effect” amongst recipients, where they leave the profession once these payments stop. (Paragraph 74) Alternative routes into …
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 …
We were encouraged by the ‘Apply for Qualified Teacher Status in England’ digital service launched in February 2023. We would like an update and review of the success of this service in response to this report. Type: conclusion | Number: …
We are disappointed about recent changes to the international relocation payment which will exclude trainee teachers from the 2024 and 2025 academic years. We viewed this payment as a positive intervention to encourage the recruitment and training of international teachers …
The Department must also collaborate with other relevant government Departments to ensure routes and pathways into teaching for international teachers remain open, attractive, and easy to navigate. (Paragraph 102) Teacher training and professional development Type: conclusion | Number: 25 | …
We also recognise that cost can prevent teachers from engaging with Continuing Professional Development. Consequently, we are concerned about the announcement that from Autumn 2024 funding for National professional qualifications (NPQs) will only be provided to teachers and school leaders …
We have significant concerns about the negative impacts of subject specific teacher shortages. These include compromising the quality of teaching where subjects are being taught by teachers without subject expertise and the reduction of subject provision where schools do not …
STEM teacher salaries must be as competitive as possible with the private sector, and we welcome the new STEM-focused bursaries and wider efforts by the Government to recruit and retain STEM teachers. However, we do not think the amounts currently …