Secondary subjects with the largest reduction in teacher bursaries attracted the fewest trainees in this year’s “grim” recruitment drive, new analysis shows.
The findings suggest the decision by ministers to slash bursaries after the short-lived recruitment boom during the first year of Covid is now “compounding” challenges.
Ministers are likely to miss their secondary trainee teacher target for next year by a third, the ninth time in the past ten years that targets have been missed.
John Howson, the chair of the teacher vacancy site TeachVac, said it was “grim news”.
Figures from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) show a strong correlation between subjects with the largest falls in recruits and the biggest drop in bursaries.
