While analysis of government figures shows ministers are on track to miss teacher recruitment targets by 48 per cent this year, some subjects are faring even worse than others.
This morning, parliament’s Education Committee grilled subject association leads on how to fix teacher shortages in modern foreign languages, maths, religious education, design and technology and physics.
It comes as part of MP’s inquiry into the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
All of the subjects have missed government-set recruitment targets in recent years.