Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
If you would like to discuss previous, ongoing or potential research into any of the areas in this document, please contact research.engagement@education.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Understanding the complex determinants of teacher supply is important for effective workforce planning. The current teacher supply 'crisis' is expected to get worse. Despite the body of work in this area the issue has ne...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Durham University
This project specifically focuses on understanding the determinants of teacher shortages and the impact of policies on teacher recruitment and retention, directly addressing the question.
Current government policy aims both to raise overall standards of attainment and to reduce the attainment gap between rich and poor. The most important determinant of a child's education is the quality of teaching. So, h...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
While this project focuses on understanding how to retain the best teachers in the profession, it does not directly address the impacts of teacher workload on career decisions and staff retention.
This project addresses the issue of teacher shortages, a pervading policy concern in many countries, with policy responses that often focus on teachers' relatively poor pay and working conditions. This is because many st...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
Partially addresses the question by analyzing teacher shortages and policies, but does not specifically focus on impacts on graduate career decisions and staff retention.