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What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages? (2024)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Ledger, M., See, B. H., & Morris, R. (online). What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages?. Research Papers in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2024.2414427

Recurrent teacher shortages have been a long-standing problem for many countries. Popular strategies to attract and retain teachers, used over several decades across the world, include bursaries, scholarships, performance-related pay, professional de... Read More about What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages?.

A structured review of the potential role of school leaders in making teaching more attractive (2024)
Journal Article
See, B. H., Gorard, S., El Soufi, N., Ledger, M., Morris, R., Maude, K., & Ivarsson-Keng, N. (online). A structured review of the potential role of school leaders in making teaching more attractive. Educational Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2392565

Some attempts to address the worldwide shortage of teachers focus on raising the prestige of teaching, and making the occupation more appealing. Teacher job satisfaction and well-being have been identified as important factors linked to the status of... Read More about A structured review of the potential role of school leaders in making teaching more attractive.

Who wants to be a teacher? Findings from a survey of undergraduates in England (2021)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Ventista, O. M., Morris, R., & See, B. H. (2023). Who wants to be a teacher? Findings from a survey of undergraduates in England. Educational Studies, 49(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2021.1915751

Having enough (appropriate) teachers is a foundation for a good education system, yet teacher shortages in some areas and subjects are a widespread problem. This paper examines the views of 4,469 undergraduate students in 53 universities in England,... Read More about Who wants to be a teacher? Findings from a survey of undergraduates in England.

UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects (2017)
Report
See, B., Morris, R., Gorard, S., & Griffin, N. (2017). UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects. UK Space Agency

Increasing the number of pupils and young people studying STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) has been a concern for successive UK governments in the last two decades. In 2014 the Prime Minister claimed that maths, science and... Read More about UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects.

Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE? (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gorard, S., Boliver, V., Siddiqui, N., Banerjee, P., & Morris, R. Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?

UK universities are increasingly making decisions about undergraduate admissions with reference to various contextual indicators which are intended to identify whether or not an applicant comes from a disadvantaged family, neighbourhood or school env... Read More about Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?.

The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching (2016)
Book
Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

This is a wide-ranging review of the evidence on effective teaching approaches for primary age children. It evaluates the evidence carefully, leading to summaries of what is known to work, what is not known to work, and what is known to be harmful. T... Read More about The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching.

Reframing the English grammar schools debate (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, R., & Perry, T. (2017). Reframing the English grammar schools debate. Educational Review, 69(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2016.1184132

In October 2015 the Department for Education (DfE) permitted a grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent, to open up an annexe in Sevenoaks, 10 miles away. Amidst claims that the annexe was essentially a new grammar school, the decision reignited an old deba... Read More about Reframing the English grammar schools debate.

Free Schools and disadvantaged intakes (2015)
Journal Article
Morris, R. (2015). Free Schools and disadvantaged intakes. British Educational Research Journal, 41(4), 535-552. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3168

The Free Schools policy in England has led to the opening of a number of new autonomous state-funded schools. This article uses data from the Annual Schools Census to present the proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged children attending the f... Read More about Free Schools and disadvantaged intakes.

The admissions criteria of secondary Free Schools (2014)
Journal Article
Morris, R. (2014). The admissions criteria of secondary Free Schools. Oxford Review of Education, 40(3), 389-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2014.921614

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the admissions criteria used by the first two waves of secondary Free Schools in England. The type of criteria and their ranked order is explored and their potential impact on the school composition i... Read More about The admissions criteria of secondary Free Schools.