Offering financial incentives to teachers – such as higher salaries and bonuses – could help attract high-quality staff to challenging schools, a report has suggested.
Giving financial rewards directly to teachers, rather than allocated to their school, could improve recruitment and retention challenges facing the sector, according to the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) review.
It comes as teachers are embroiled in an ongoing dispute over pay which has led to a series of strikes during this school year.
The EEF review, by a team of researchers from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, explored international research on strategies for improving recruitment and retention of teachers.
It also found strategies to reduce workload and improve working conditions were associated with improved teacher retention, and heavier workloads were consistently associated with higher staff turnover.
A separate report, published on Thursday, suggests the number of job advertisements for secondary school teachers has increased by 12% in a year.
Secondary schools are struggling to meet the demands of growing pupil numbers and attrition from the profession, according to the report by the Teacher Tapp app and education data company SchoolDash.
