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Teacher research
Teacher research
Teacher research
What work can teachers find? Our surveys ask about supply days, temporary contracts and routes into permanent posts. Read the research or take part when a survey is open.
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The employment survey can be completed without creating an account. Written answers are reviewed for identifying details before any permitted excerpt is published.
Open-link surveys are self-selected. Findings describe the people who responded and are not presented as estimates for all Scottish teachers.
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Published findings
Reports are published after analysis and include the relevant methodology and limitations.
Research archive
These are separate pieces of research with different samples and questions. They should not be treated as one continuous dataset.
Historical findings about probationers' experiences of finding teaching work after induction.
A separate study from the current teacher survey.
Read the original reportTes reported findings from a later staffing-continuity survey that included parents as well as teachers.
A different sample from the current teacher survey.
Read the Tes coverageFirst-person accounts of insecure employment, published anonymously after review.
Testimony, not a representative survey.
Read teacher voicesOur teacher surveys are open-link, self-selected studies. Each one states who it is for before you begin. Findings describe the people who responded; they should not be read as population estimates for all Scottish teachers.