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<p>The department is committed to ensuring that schools are able to recruit appropriately
to fill their teacher vacancies. The majority of teachers in schools in England are
recruited from within the UK and our priority is to meet our teacher recruitment needs
domestically. However, schools have always been able to recruit staff internationally,
and teachers from overseas make an important contribution to our education system.</p><p>
</p><p>The department runs programmes to help schools recruit from overseas. Our Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics International Teacher Recruitment Programme
supports state-funded secondary schools in England with the recruitment of maths and
physics teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA.</p><p> </p><p>In
our recently published ‘Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy’, we committed
to exploring opportunities to develop new and existing partnerships, focusing particularly
on language teachers, in order to boost the recruitment of teachers from overseas.</p><p>
</p><p>The government’s white paper ‘The UK’s future skills-based immigration system’,
outlined proposals to introduce a new skilled workers route, open to all countries
across the globe with an expanded skills threshold covering work at Regulated Qualifications
Framework level 3 and above, including teachers. Those coming to the UK on this route
will need to be sponsored by an employer.</p><p> </p><p>As part of developing this
new immigration system the Home Office is undertaking a programme of extensive engagement
with stakeholders across the whole of the UK to shape the final details of policy
and processes, and the department will continue to work very closely with them on
this.</p>
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