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  'All the teachers are deserting us!'

  Josephine Moulds examines the reasons behind the high turnover rate of teachers

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• Physics in rude health

  Oct 1 2008:

  Britain has a growing international reputation in physics, a new report shows

• Primary school job vacancies up by a third

  Sep 26 2008:

  Shortages up by more than a fifth in secondary schools, with greatest shortages in maths and science

• Primary teacher vacancies up by a third

  Sep 25 2008:

  Government figures show the staff shortage in secondary schools has also grown, especially in maths and science

• Fewer men are training to teach

  Sep 25 2008:

  New figures show the gender gap among student teachers is widening

• Teaching is elementary, not secondary

  Sep 25 2008:

  Oli de Botton: Structure doesn't matter as much as we think: the quality of our schools is only as good as the quality of our teachers

• Third of new teachers not in classroom one year on

  Sep 19 2008:

  Many choose not to stay in teaching despite their training, new figures show

• Wanted: Maths teacher. £3,000 reward

  Sep 16 2008:

  Top Suffolk school offers golden hello to attract a numbers specialist

• Schools in crisis hunt for 1,000 new heads

  Sep 14 2008:

  Heads and senior teachers are being secretly lined up for academy positions despite existing shortfalls

• Lingua Franca

  Sep 4 2008:

  Agnes Poirier: The French government's decision to introduce more English in schools is a smokescreen disguising cutbacks and job losses

• Schools exploiting 'cut-price teachers'

  Jul 29 2008:

  Schools are cutting corners by employing teaching assistants as 'cut-price teachers', says retired nursery nurse

• Teacher training courses take on 'risky' students

  Jul 25 2008:

  Universities with teacher training courses are taking on "risky" students in shortage subjects to fill their quotas, researchers claim

• Brown to trial child development grants

  Jun 23 2008:

  Parents of children under five will receive one-off payments of £200 as part of a package of measures being unveiled today by Gordon Brown in a speech on social mobility and child poverty

• 'The class is in awe and knuckles down to work'

  Apr 29 2008:

  At £5 per 50-minute lesson, employing sixth-formers as supply cover is one answer to teacher shortages. Jessica Shepherd reports

• Teacher shortage in key subjects feared

  Feb 7 2008: · Maths and English hit by decline in trainees
  · Shortfall will hit schools in summer of 2009

• Schools face maths and English teacher shortage

  Feb 6 2008:

  Schools face a shortage of maths and English teachers next year after new figures show a dramatic drop in the number of teacher trainee applicants

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