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Priorities for 2017: School funding & teacher supply

Improved school funding and teacher supply are the two clear priorities for 2017, says Malcolm Trobe

Nobody will need any reminding that it will be a challenging year for a variety of reasons. Chief among them are the continuing pressures of rising costs on flat budgets, and the on-going problems of a teacher supply and retention crisis which shows no signs of abating.

In my last article for SecEd, I wrote about the impact of teacher shortages and the need for a comprehensive strategy led by the government in which ministers and civil servants must work alongside the teaching profession to address this critical situation (Two solutions to the teacher supply crisis, SecEd, November 2016: http://bit.ly/2j1GJPn).

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