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<p>Schools should reflect society and the communities they serve, and it is important
to attract and retain high-skilled, talented men into teaching.</p><p>The department
does this through effective pay structures and by ensuring teaching remains a financially
rewarding career. We remain committed to increasing teacher starting salaries to £30,000
to make teaching an attractive graduate option. While the pay restraint in academic
year 2021/22 means we are now delivering this commitment to a revised timescale, the
5.5% uplift to starting pay in September 2020 has already made a substantial difference
to the competitiveness of the early career pay offer.</p><p>The department’s ‘Teaching
– Every Lesson Shapes A Life’ recruitment campaign is targeted at audiences of students,
recent graduates and potential career changers regardless of gender, and we take every
effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full
range of marketing materials we use.</p><p>In October, Apply for Teacher Training
(Apply), our new application service for initial teacher training (ITT) in England,
was rolled out nationally. Apply has been designed to be user-friendly and has been
extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants, including men, to
ensure it helps remove barriers to great teachers applying for ITT courses. Apply
will also allow us to collect more data, giving us greater insight into candidate
behaviour and the behaviour of providers of teacher training so that the department
can identify barriers and work closely with ITT providers to explore, design and test
new interventions to recruit more candidates from under-represented backgrounds into
the sector.</p><p>Alongside a focus on recruitment, it is important we retain male
teachers. This will be supported by our work to ensure that all new entrants to teacher
training have the best possible start to the early stage of their career, regardless
of gender.</p><p>World-class programmes developed by the Department for Education
to support the school workforce, including our Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms
for those at the beginning of careers and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs)
to develop our best teaching and leadership talent, is the best training for everyone
whatever their background. The ECF reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early
career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the
start of their careers. NPQs are now freely available to all teachers in state-funded
schools, as well as state-funded 16-19 organisations.</p>
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