Question follow-through · 901022
Further Education: Recruitment
What steps her Department is taking to help further education colleges recruit vocational teachers from industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
What steps her Department is taking to help further education colleges recruit vocational teachers from industry.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
The department recognises that industry experience is vital in the high quality teaching of vocational and technical education.The national further education teacher recruitment campaign, “Share Your Skills”, targets those with industry skills to think ab...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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