Teacher Shortages Worsen as Rise of Home Working Makes Profession Less Attractive: Report

Teacher Shortages Worsen as Rise of Home Working Makes Profession Less Attractive: Report
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Alexander Zhang
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Teacher shortages have worsened in England following the COVID-19 pandemic partly because the profession offers relatively limited opportunities to work from home, a new report has said.

According to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), the number of teacher vacancies posted by schools was 93 percent higher in the academic year up to February 2023 than at the same point in the year before the pandemic.