You only need to look at the dramatic rise in class sizes to see through the DfE’s embarrassing propaganda over teacher numbers, says Geoff Barton
A press release from the Department for Education a couple of weeks ago on data from the school workforce census felt like an alternate reality (DfE, 2023).
It giddily proclaimed: “Schools in England now have more teachers than ever before.”
There was the slightest of nods from education secretary Gillian Keegan to acknowledge that all in the garden was not actually rosy. “We know there is more to do,” she said at one point. But, in general, it was a case of: “Crisis? What crisis?”
