Ethnic minority candidates are less likely to be accepted onto teacher training than their white counterparts, despite showing a “clear and obvious interest” in the profession, a new report has found.
Research by the National Foundation for Educational Research also found 86 per cent of state schools have an all-white senior leadership team, and that non-white ethnic groups are underrepresented in headship by as much as 88 per cent.
Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi warned last year that school leadership is not representative of the country at large.
