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.
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
This project specifically focuses on the factors influencing the recruitment and retention of teachers in disadvantaged communities, providing a quantitative analysis to answer the question fully.
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
While this project addresses teacher shortages and workforce planning, it does not fully focus on the factors influencing recruitment and retention in disadvantaged communities, but it partially addresses the broader issue.
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
The project addresses the factors influencing teacher recruitment and retention in schools serving disadvantaged communities through a comparative analysis of teacher policies across international education systems.