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Mohamed Alansari; Mengnan Li – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2023
As part of the National Survey of Schools project, part of NZCER's Te Pae Tawhiti programme of research, we collaborated with the New Zealand Area Schools Association (NZASA) to survey area school teachers between 15 June and 21 July 2023. A total of 652 area teachers across 64 area schools completed the survey, with questions focusing on: (1)…
Descriptors: National Surveys, School Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Educational Trends
OECD Publishing, 2020
Throughout the world, teachers and schools are responding to one of the greatest disruptions to education systems in living memory. Routines and practices they have followed for decades have been changed, overhauled or suppressed to reduce the risk of contagion for students, teachers and parents, while ensuring continuity of teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Anxiety, Teaching Conditions, COVID-19
Worth, Jack; McLean, Dawson; Sharp, Caroline – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
Racial diversity within the school workforce is valuable in 'fostering social cohesion and most importantly, in supporting pupils to grow and develop in an environment of visible, diverse role models' (DfE, 2018c, p.2). A diverse workforce is likely to promote greater cultural understanding and inclusion when educating pupils from diverse ethnic…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation, Preservice Teacher Education
Sims, Sam; Jerrim, John – UK Department for Education, 2020
England currently faces a shortage of teachers, in part due to declining retention. Research suggests that one important influence on teachers' decisions about whether to leave teaching is the quality of working conditions in their school. Understanding which specific aspects of working conditions have the strongest relationship with retention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Teaching Conditions
Julius, Jenna; Hillary, Jude; Veruete-McKay, Leticia – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
To mark the ten year anniversary since the introduction of the free schools programme, New Schools Network (NSN) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to conduct an independent data-led investigation into what impact free schools have had since their introduction in 2010. The research examines the impact that free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Nontraditional Education, Program Evaluation
Sims, Sam – UK Department for Education, 2017
High teacher turnover in schools is associated with reduced pupil attainment. High turnover also has an effect on equity, since it tends to be concentrated in schools with deprived intakes. A good deal of research has attributed higher levels of teacher turnover in such schools to the challenges involved in teaching disadvantaged pupils. However,…
Descriptors: Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Teaching Conditions, Job Satisfaction
Worth, Jack – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2020
The recruitment, development and retention of teachers and school leaders is a crucial underpinning for a successful education system. However, England's school system faces a substantial and growing challenge of ensuring there are sufficient numbers of high-quality teachers employed in schools. Meeting this supply challenge is necessary for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Recruitment
Worth, Jack; Faulkner-Ellis, Henry – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on society, the economy and on the entire education sector. Teachers' workload, well-being, recruitment and retention have been affected by the national crisis. The aim of the National Foundation for Educational Research's (NFER's) annual series of Teacher Labour Market reports is to monitor the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Labor Market
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
British Columbia teachers are pleased to have an early opportunity to present their views on priorities for the 2020 provincial budget to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) represents 43,000 teachers and associated professionals in public schools across British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Funding Formulas
Bélanger, Julie; Broeks, Miriam – RAND Europe, 2016
This report explores the working conditions and flows of state-funded secondary school teachers in Cambridgeshire compared to a select number of other local authorities and to the English national landscape as a whole between 2010 and 2015. It also presents findings for different subjects, highlighting the situation for science, technology,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions
McAleavy, Tony; Elwick, Alex; Hall-Chen, Alex – Education Development Trust, 2018
London schools continue to constitute an extraordinary "success story." By common consent, the government school system in London achieves extremely good results compared to the rest of England, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds do particularly well. In 2014, the authors sought to document and provisionally explain the London…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement
Mostafa, Tarek; Pál, Judit – OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student, and school characteristics are related to science teachers' satisfaction in 19 PISA-participating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Evidence, Teacher Surveys
Bastick, Tony – 2002
This study examined motivational factors responsible for the retention of experienced teachers in Jamaica. Using a stratified sample of Jamaican teachers in training, the study compared the motivations for teaching of 821 novice student teachers with the motivations of 206 student teachers having more than 3 years of teaching experience. Data from…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Incentives
Walsh, Kate; Wilcox, Danielle; Palmaffy, Tyce; Tracy, Christopher; Yiamouyiannis, Zeus; Ostermeier, Amy; Garcia, Lenore Yaffee – US Department of Education, 2004
This report presents a balanced picture of the debate on teacher quality in the U.S. and focuses on the aspects of teacher policy dealing with attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining effective teachers by synthesizing relevant research, identifying innovative and successful policy practices, facilitating exchanges of lessons among…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Mulkeen, Aidan; Chapman, David W.; DeJaeghere, Joan G. – Academy for Educational Development, 2005
Expanding and rethinking the nature of secondary education in Sub-Saharan African countries, traditionally reserved for elites and few others, are becoming crucial to successful individual and national participation in the global economy. As governments and donors turn their attention increasingly to secondary education, policies are being…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Secondary Education, Retraining, Program Effectiveness
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