MP, Labour’s Shadow
Education Secretary, commenting on the release of
the Schools Workforce statistics showing that more teachers are
leaving the profession than joining, said:
“These figures reveal the scale of the crisis the Tories have
created for our schools.
“The Government’s responsibility is to ensure our schools have
the resources they need to train enough teachers. The Tories have
failed to do so.
“This is a damning verdict on seven years of failure from
Conservative governments, and without urgent action on teacher
recruitment and retention, a generation of children will pay the
price for that failure.”
Ends
Notes to editors
· Government data has today
confirmed that more teachers left the profession than joined last
year for the second year in a row. The total entrant rate is down
and over 2,600 more teachers left the profession than joined in
2016.
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Qualified teachers entering and leaving the
profession
|
|
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2015
|
2016
|
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Total entrants to teaching in the state-funded
sector
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48,980
|
47,490
|
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Total entrants rate
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10.3
|
10.0
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Total leavers from teaching in the state-funded
sector
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50,630
|
50,110
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Total wastage rate
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10.6
|
10.5
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Source: DfE, School Workforce in England November 2016, 22
June 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016
