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What Is GCA Lot 1 and How Can It Support Your Trust or Academy?

​If you are a trust leader, business manager or headteacher trying to make sense of the RM6376 framework before September, you have probably seen the names Lot 1 and Lot 2 come up. What they mean i...

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Could Lot 2 Save Your Trust or Academy This Academic Year?

With September 2026 approaching fast, the conversation around the RM6376 Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment framework has moved from awareness to urgency. Academy trusts are now required to ...

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The Ripple Effect of One Great Teacher

​Most people can name one. A teacher who changed something for them. Not necessarily the one who made them top of the class, but the one who made them feel like they could be. The one who noticed t...

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The Importance of Giving Candidates Feedback

​Picture this. A teacher applies for a role at your school, prepares thoroughly, takes a day off to attend interview, and performs well enough to reach the final two. A week passes. Then another. N...

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How Demographic Changes Are Affecting School Staffing

​The biggest structural shift in English education right now is not a policy change, a funding formula or an Ofsted framework. It is demographics. The number of children in schools is falling, it i...

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The Biggest Recruitment Lessons We've Learned This Year

​Every year teaches you something. In education recruitment, 2025 into 2026 has been one of the most instructive periods we can remember. The market has shifted, the legal landscape has changed, an...

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The Most In-Demand Education Roles Right Now

​If you work in school recruitment, or if you are a teacher weighing up your next move, understanding where demand is concentrated right now is more useful than any generic career advice. The educa...

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5 Red Flags Schools Should Never Ignore During Recruitment

​Most school leaders know what a good candidate looks like. The strong application, the coherent career story, the interview that builds genuine confidence. What is harder to talk about, but arguab...

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The Future of Hybrid and Flexible Roles in Education

​Something has shifted in what teachers expect from their working lives, and schools that have not noticed yet are starting to feel it in their recruitment numbers.Flexible working in education is ...

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Are Schools Preparing Students for Just Exams or Work?

​Ask most parents what they want from their child's school years and they will probably give you a similar answer: they want their child to leave with the confidence, skills and knowledge to build ...

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How AI Will Shape Education Recruitment

​Artificial intelligence is reshaping hiring across every sector. From CV screening tools to AI-led video interviews, the recruitment landscape in 2026 looks meaningfully different to how it looked...

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How Recruitment Agencies Help Schools Stay Compliant in 2026

​Compliance in schools has never been more complex. Between KCSIE 2025, the Employment Rights Act rollout, the new RM6376 framework requirements, and Ofsted's increasingly rigorous approach to safe...

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Why Your Job Ads Are Not Attracting the Right Teachers

​ou have posted the advert. You have waited. And the applications that have come back are not quite what you were hoping for. Either the volume is low, the candidates are not the right fit, or the ...

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What Psychology Actually Tells Us About the Best Teachers in the Room

​Every teacher knows the difference between a lesson that hums and a lesson that drags. Between a classroom where pupils lean in and one where they drift. Between a group that tries and one that sw...

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The Rise of Flexible Staffing in Education

​Something has quietly shifted in the way schools think about their workforce. It is not a sudden change, and it has not come from a single policy announcement. It has been building steadily over t...

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How Recruitment Agencies Protect Schools from Safeguarding Risks

​Safeguarding is not a box to tick. For any school leader who has sat in front of an Ofsted inspector and been asked to produce their Single Central Record at short notice, that statement needs no ...

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Speed vs Quality: The Biggest Hiring Mistake Schools Make

​There is a moment most school leaders will recognise. A teacher hands in their notice on 31 May. The timetable needs sorting. The class needs cover from September. And suddenly a hiring decision t...

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Why Your Job Ads Are Not Attracting the Right Teachers

​You have posted the advert. You have waited. And the applications that have come back are not quite what you were hoping for. Either the volume is low, the candidates are not the right fit, or the...

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How to Write the Perfect Teacher Resignation Letter

​If you read our last blog on teacher resignation day and the 31 May deadline, you will already know the process for handing in your notice. But knowing who to give your letter to, and by when, is ...

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Thinking About a Change? Here Is How to Hand In Your Notice This May

​If you are a teacher and have been thinking about leaving your teaching job and making a move this summer, today is the day that matters. 31 May is the annual teacher resignation deadline for the ...

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