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Tackling England’s physics teacher shortage with a new apprenticeship scheme

05 Apr 2024 Katherine Skipper

The shortage of physics teachers in England has led the government to set up a new apprenticeship scheme that it hopes will help encourage more people into the profession. But with high workloads and low pay causing many teachers to quit, Katherine Skipper asks if this latest scheme will be enough to fix the issue

Physics teacher in secondary school with three pupils
Securing the future The shortage of specialist physics teachers is a growing problem facing schools and young people in the UK, but could the new teacher degree apprenticeships help? (Courtesy: iStock/kali9)
Very few world-changing physics breakthroughs happen in a classroom, but many of them started there.

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Katherine Skipper is a features editor at Physics World
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