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Teachers: Recruitment

Commons · Question 36785 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 7 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of career changers on meeting her target of recruiting 6,500 new teachers.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 7 Apr 2025

The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...