NFER: Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages

NFER has published a new analysis feature which explores the under-studied question of how shifting career motivations might be contributing to the teacher supply challenge.

The feature, authored by NFER School Workforce Lead, Jack Worth and NFER Economist, Dawson McClean, discusses how the findings suggest that interest in teaching among full-time students has varied over time. However, the proportion of young people who say they want to be a teacher has been generally consistent in the decade since 2011.

A methodology appendix has also been published to accompany the analysis.