PAC Educational Attainment 1
07 March 2025

NFER statement in response to Public Accounts Committee’s report into educational attainment of disadvantaged children

Co-Head of UK Policy and Practice Jude Hillary has given his reaction to a new Public Accounts Committee inquiry report.
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Special School Teachers 1
04 March 2025

New blog - Special School Teachers: Where do they come from? Where do they go?

Following last week's blog post on the current make up of the special schools workforce, Senior Economist Michael Scott turns to the current teacher recruitment and retention dynamics.
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Disadvantaged Attainment Gap 2
03 March 2025

New blog - We can’t close the disadvantage gap if we dont know whats driving it

Co-Head of UK Policy and Practice Research Jude Hillary discusses the latest data on secondary school attainment outcomes for 2023/24.
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School Workforce Latest Img01
27 February 2025

NFER dashboard highlights why teacher shortages are a key challenge facing Government’s opportunity mission

A new blog from Senior Economist Michael Scott discusses some of the findings from the updated teacher recruitment and retention in England data dashboard.
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Teacher Workforce Dashboard 1
27 February 2025

Updated interactive dashboard highlights key workforce challenges facing schools with more disadvantaged pupils

Our updated interactive dashboard has found that schools with the highest rates of pupils who receive free school meals (FSM) have larger teacher recruitment and retention challenges.
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Special Schools Workforce 7
25 February 2025

New blog - Exploring the special schools workforce: What's the current picture?

In this first of a two part feature length blog post series on special schools, Senior Economist Michael Scott discusses the current workforce, teacher vacancy rates and data about teachers with qualified teacher status (QTS).
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