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Newly qualified teacher guarantee
Seek reforms supporting at least three years of employment for newly qualified teachers, including retraining unemployed qualified primary teachers.
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Teacher Jobs Guarantee for a minimum of 3 years for newly qualified teachers, including retraining into new roles in the profession for qualified primary school teachers who do not have a job.
Not an unconditional permanent-job guarantee for every qualified teacher.
Recruit underemployed teachers for education recovery and improve certainty through permanent work.
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Providing jobs for teachers, recruiting underemployed teachers to deliver our education recovery programme in schools, gathering better data on the number of qualified teachers and providing greater certainty with permanent contracts and jobs.
Bring job-seeking teachers and rural schools together to identify employment solutions.
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working group with teachers looking for full-time work and schools in our rural communities so that solutions can be found that would allow these teachers to find potential employment.
No universal permanent-job entitlement or numerical recruitment target.
Accelerate retraining from oversupplied teaching subjects into shortage areas while retaining professional standards.
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expedited conversion courses, allowing them to qualify in subjects where there are more vacancies, whilst ensuring they still have the requisite knowledge to teach these subjects.
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