The Recruitment Crisis: An RQTs Perspective
Crisis? What Crisis? At this very moment the newest cohort of PGCE students may have received their places, are doing preparatory reading, organising a work placement before they get started. They are walking into a profession in turmoil, I sometimes wonder just how aware of it they are. Media Barrage Almost every time I see an article about teaching in any major media publication (not including bloggers etc.) there is substantial media coverage, an unrelenting barrage almost, of negativity about the profession: recruitment crisis , teacher burnout , ill thought out government policies , the list goes on. The recruitment crisis is real, there is no denying this. More experienced colleagues tell me anecdotally that now classes are bigger than they ever have been (which is backed up in numerous sources ). Universities are not filling up all PGCE spaces, factoring in drop out rates and the number of teachers who never make the classroom after gaining QTS. What can we do abou