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<p>It is essential that the further education (FE) sector is able to recruit and
retain excellent teachers if we are to achieve a world-class technical education system
in England. Due to the independent nature of the FE sector, and government’s historical
relationship with it, we do not have detailed data on FE teacher pay, or on the wider
FE workforce.</p><p>We are undertaking work to understand the situation better, including
the specific challenges and opportunities in relation to teacher recruitment and retention
in the sector. This includes our recent College Staff Survey, which is helping us
develop a better insight into the state of the teaching profession in FE and shows
that more than half of all teachers have worked in the sector for ten years or more.</p><p>We
want to support the recruitment and development of FE teachers. This year we have
launched our £5 million Taking Teaching Further programme to help attract talented
and inspiring people with industry expertise to teach in FE. We have also announced
our £8 million new bespoke professional development offer, T level Professional Development,
to help existing teachers and leaders successfully deliver T levels.</p><p>Further,
we have recently commissioned research on identifying FE teacher comparators, and
on incentive programmes for the recruitment and retention on FE teachers, to better
inform our thinking. The reports, and the results of the College Staff Survey, are
available at GOV.UK.</p>
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