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Secondary Education: Teacher Retention and Recruitment House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Secondary Education: Teacher Retention and Recruitment Fifth Report of Session 2003–04 Volume II Oral and written evidence Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 14 September 2004 HC 1057-II Incorporating HC 714 i-vi from Session 2002-03 Published on 21 September 2004 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £21.50 The Education and Skills Committee The Education and Skills Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Education and Skills and its associated public bodies. Current membership Mr Barry Sheerman MP (Labour, Huddersfield) (Chairman) Mr David Chaytor MP (Labour, Bury North) Valerie Davey MP (Labour, Bristol West) Jeff Ennis MP (Labour, Barnsley East & Mexborough) Mr Nick Gibb MP (Conservative, Bognor Regis & Littlehampton) Paul Holmes MP (Liberal Democrat, Chesterfield) Mr Robert Jackson MP (Conservative, Wantage) Helen Jones MP (Labour, Warrington North) Mr Kerry Pollard MP (Labour, St Albans) Jonathan Shaw MP (Labour, Chatham and Aylesford) Mr Andrew Turner MP (Conservative, Isle of Wight) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk Publications The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at: www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/education_and_skills_committee.cfm Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are David Lloyd (Clerk), Dr Sue Griffiths (Second Clerk), Sara Eustace (Committee Specialist), Libby Aston (Committee Specialist), Lisa Wrobel (Committee Assistant), Susan Monaghan (Committee Assistant), and Catherine Jackson (Secretary). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Education and Skills Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6181; the Committee’s email address is [email protected] Witnesses Monday 19 May 2003 Page Mr John Beattie, Chairman, Ms Sarah Stephens, Director of Policy, Mr Alan Meyrick, Registrar and Mr Keith Hill, Link Adviser, Teacher Retention and Ev 6 Copntinuing Professional Development, General Teaching Council. Wednesday 11 June 2003 Professor John Howson, Director, Education Data Surveys, Visiting Professor, Oxford Brookes University, Professor Bob Moon and Mrs Elizabeth Bird, Centre for Research in Teacher Education, The Open University. Ev 29 Wednesday 18 June 2003 Mr Graham Lane, Chair, Mr Ronnie Norman, Vice Chair, and Mr James Kempton, Education Committee, National Employers Organisation for School Teachers; Dr John Dunford OBE, General Secretary and Rev John Caperon, Ev 68 Chair of Professional and Management Committee, Secondary Heads Association, Ms Kerry George, Senior Assistant Secretary and Mr Gareth Matthewson, President, National Association of Head Teachers. Monday 23 June 2003 Mr Doug McAvoy, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers, Mr Eamon O’Kane, General Secretary, National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers, Mrs Meryl Thompson, Head of Policy, Association of Teachers and Lecturers, and Mrs Deborah Simpson, Senior Professional Officer, Professional Association of Teachers. Ev 115 Monday 7 July 2003 Mrs Heather Du Quesnay CBE, Director and Chief Executive, National College for School Leadership, Dame Patricia Collarbone DBE, Director of Leadership Development, National College for School Leadership, Mr Ralph Tabberer, Chief Executive, Teacher Training Agency and Miss Mary Doherty, Director of Teacher Supply and Recruitment, Teacher Training Agency. Ev 131 Wednesday 9 July 2003 Mr David Miliband, Minister of State for School Standards, Department for Education and Skills. Ev 160 List of written evidence 1 General Teaching Council Ev 1: Ev 26 2 Professor John Howson Ev 29 3 Professor Bob Moon and Mrs Elizabeth Bird, The Open University Ev 37 4 The National Employers Organisation for School Teachers Ev 68 5 Secondary Heads Association Ev 78 6 National Union of Teachers Ev 94 7 Association of Teachers and Lecturers Ev 103: Ev 110 8 National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers Ev 111 9 National College for School Leadership Ev 131: Ev 159 10 Teacher Training Agency Ev 137: Ev 159 11 Department for Education and Skills Ev 160 12 David Miliband MP, Minister of State for School Standards Ev 197 13 Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See and Patrick White, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences Ev 199 14 Institute of Physics Ev 218 15 Professor Michael Bassey, Emeritus Professor of Nottingham Trent University and Academic Secretary of the British Educational Research Association Ev 219 16 Ofsted Ev 223 17 Professor Alistair Ross and Dr Merryn Hutchings, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University Ev 225 18 Terry Creissen, Principal, Colne Community School Ev 229 19 Professor Alan Smithers Ev 230 List of unprinted written evidence Additional papers have been received from the following and have been reported to the House but to save printing costs they have not been printed and copies have been placed in the House of Commons library where they may be inspected by members. Other copies are in the Record Office, House of Lords and are available to the public for inspection. Requests for inspection should be addressed to the Record Office, House of Lords, London SW1. (Tel 020 7219 3074) hours of inspection are from 9:30am to 5:00pm on Mondays to Fridays. Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, Patrick White and Karen Roberts, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences – research paper Institute of Physics – 2002 report General Teaching Council – continuing professional development – advice to Government December 2000 Education and Skills Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Education and Skills Committee on Monday 19 May 2003 Members present: Mr Barry Sheerman, in the Chair Mr David Chaytor Mr Kerry Pollard Valerie Davey Jonathan Shaw Paul Holmes Mr Mark Simmonds Ms Meg Munn Mr Andrew Turner Memorandum submitted by the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) Introduction and Background 1. The General Teaching Council for England (GTC) is committed to supporting teachers to secure the best possible standards of learning and achievement for young people. Headteachers and teachers provide evidence, albeit intuitive and anecdotal, that an association exists between pupil attainment and the ability of schools to retain appropriately qualified teachers. It is therefore natural that retention has been a core focus for the GTC since our inception. 2. The early work of the GTC’s Recruitment and Retention Committee led to initial advice in June 2001, which highlighted: — How every policy impacts on retention; — That a recommendation for a “joined-up” approach to Recruitment and Retention is essential to ensure that strategies targeted at a specific issue are not counterproductive elsewhere; — That longer term strategic approaches should be informed by improved knowledge about the teacher labour force and about the reasons why people are attracted to teaching in the first place; — Supported the promotion of the profession by demonstrating trust in teachers’ professionalism, thereby recognising the reasons why people become teachers; — Identified the need for specific strategies to retain key groups of teachers; and — To make a diVerence for pupils at the greatest disadvantage and to strengthen the teacher workforce in areas with the most serious shortages. 3. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) Retention Unit has sought to promote the key idea that every policy is about retention. The GTC considers that all policy initiatives should be assessed for their possible impact on teacher retention. Establishment of the National Retention Forum 4. The initial advice on retention and recruitment provided by the GTC in 2001 was taken forward with the establishment of the GTC hosted National Retention Forum in June 2002 at the request of the Secretary of State. 5. The membership of the Forum comprises representatives from Local Education Authorities (LEAs), headteachers, teachers, academics, the teacher associations, the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) and the DfES and provide a means for discussion, problem-solving and strategy development in the area of retention. 6. The Forum’s core objectives are to: — Gather evidence of current retention issues and good practice at LEA and school level; — Explore mechanisms and strategies for identifying retention improvement; Ev 2 Education and Skills Committee: Evidence — Enable DfES to report formally to ministers on key current retention issues, informed by professional views and practice; and — Enable the GTC Council to put formal advice to the Secretary of State on eVective retention strategies. LEA Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Projects Supporting Quality and Retention 7. The GTC is working with teams of teachers, advisers and teacher educators, initially in nine LEAs around the country to improve retention through eVective professional development. 8. The thinking behind the projects is that teachers’ engagement with continuing professional development will improve not only the quality of teaching and keep teachers at the leading edge of developments,
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