Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said the latest government figures on the teaching workforce were ‘disastrous’.Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said the latest government figures on the teaching workforce were ‘disastrous’.
Schools have been reporting a severe shortage of maths and science teachers for many years – with job adverts commonly receiving no suitable applicants – but theWill Teece, headteacher of Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, a secondary academy in Leicester, said: “The crisis is already here. The government has buried its head in the sand for so long that I worry it’s almost too late to resolve it.”
Jonny Uttley, chief executive of the Education Alliance, which runs 11 schools in Hull and East Yorkshire, said: “Year after year the crisis in hiring and keeping teachers has been getting worse.”