Green Shoots Market Intelligence

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  • UK Teacher Recruitment and Retention Crisis

    By Tahanni Hussein, Research Assistant The challenges of teacher recruitment and retention within the UK is a topic that has garnered much conversation amongst educators, policy makers, researchers and teachers themselves.  This issue of recruitment and retention has resurfaced two years post- pandemic, meaning that many schools are being left with insufficient staff numbers. Why…

  • Overview of the UK schools’ market

    As part of Green Shoots’ ongoing research programme into the UK schools’ market, we have initiated a biannual study exploring both macro and micro trends in education. A summary of the findings from the first study is now available, and can be downloaded here. Some key findings include: Feedback on the UK macro-education landscape Teachers…

  • UK Students feedback on the 2020/21 academic year

    Following the conclusion of an extremely challenging 2020/21 academic year, Green Shoots conducted a short survey with UK university students to gather their feedback on the experience. The research identified a variety of ways by which students’ study was affected and there was a very mixed response with regards to the perceived effectivness of the…

  • Teachers’ response to the school-closures

    In response to the school-closure period, teachers have been working hard to provide remote learning opportunities for their students. To see how things are going, we conducted a short survey with teachers, the results of which can be read in full on Google Drive by clicking here. To boil it down to three key points:…

  • What to make of the latest PISA results?

    As ever the latest PISA results have prompted a media frenzy across the globe, with the world’s media eager to put the boot into governments where results have not been as good as expected, while in countries where there has been improvement, academics have come out in force to undermine the progress by challenging the…

  • Equity in education – an analysis of recent publications

    ‘Educational equity’ is a term that we have been hearing more and more in recent months, building up to the  OECD report at the end of October that provided a detailed analysis of the impact that socio-economic disadvantage has on educational achievement around the world. Unsurprisingly the report concluded that educational opportunity was not ‘equitable’…