Schools are offering “golden hello” payments of up to £10,000 to attract teachers in shortage subjects – but only if they complete up to three years in the job.
The proportion of schools offering such recruitment and retention incentives fell from nearly one in 10 in 2018 to eight per cent in 2021, workforce census data shows.
But there seems to have been a recent spate of adverts for jobs advertising strings-attached golden hello payments.
And data from job search website Indeed for Schools Week shows education jobs offering sign-up bonuses increased from 0.1 per cent in April 2021 to one per cent this month.
