Flexible working could be an important factor for teacher recruitment and retention. Here are some tools that the LKMco team use to help us work flexibly. For the past few months we’ve been working with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to investigate factors that will attract and retain teachers in London. At national level, the …
At LKMco we care about ensuring all our young people receive a great education. That starts with their teachers. If you are reading this, we know that you feel the same way and we’d love your help with some of our current research. The Greater London Authority has commissioned LKMco to undertake a project to find …
LKMco welcomes the Department for Education’s announcement today of new teaching internships for undergraduates in their last year at university. The announcement provides an evidence-based response to the finding in LKMco and Pearson’s 2015 report “Why Teach?” that ‘accidental’ entry to the teaching profession was surprisingly common. The report described accidental entries as examples of becoming ‘hooked …
My 14 year-old niece’s school recently instructed her and her classmates to ensure the lengths of their skirts were in line with uniform regulations. This was premised on the need to avoid “compromising male staff and students” by “showing too much thigh” while “walking upstairs or even just sitting down”. A similarly worded email was …
As a geography teacher in a large, mono-cultural secondary school, I remember feeling a depressing powerlessness in the face of a small but fairly vocal minority of pupils’ attitudes to race, ethnicity, or any culture that differed from their own. Studying topics like migration and aid were particularly prone to revealing views that made me …
