Reforms aimed at making England the “most attractive place in the world” to teach will still mean thousands fewer teachers from overseas than before Brexit, official figures suggest.
The government unveiled reforms to qualified teacher status earlier this year to make it “fairer and easier” for teachers trained overseas to work in English schools.
It said the move was part of a drive to ensure an “excellent teacher in every classroom”, with the main QTS application route to be widened to more countries by the end of 2023. Individuals cannot teach in many English schools for more than four years without QTS.
But in newly published projections, the Department for Education has admitted it only expects reforms to spark an extra 619 teachers from newly eligible countries to apply for QTS.
