As England's education system emerges blinking from peak teacher-hiring season, welcome to another annual roundup of school recruiting activity. As before, we have teamed up with with the Gatsby Foundation, who have provided generous funding, and Teacher Tapp. Our approach combines SchoolDash's vacancies data (gathered nightly from school websites) with Teacher Tapp's insights into the opinions and intentions of teachers and school leaders (derived from their unique online surveys). This helps us to get a handle not only on what's happening, but also on the reasons why and on what we might expect next.
If the approach is familiar, the results bear much less similarity to previous years – in this as in so many other respects, we live in unusual times. We encourage you to read our full joint report. The analysis below is for readers who want to dive further into the school vacancies and headteacher appointments data.
