The new Education Secretary Gillian Keegan makes her first appearance before the Education Committee, alongside her Department’s Permanent Secretary, Susan Acland-Hood.
It will be a wide-ranging session that touches on topics related to the cross-party Committee’s ongoing and past inquiries, and that probes numerous policy areas.
Questions on the recurring issue of teacher recruitment and retainment are likely to be put to the Secretary of State, after recent DfE data showed there were 29% fewer entrants to teacher training courses in 2022/23 than needed to hit the Government’s targets.
