Catch up on the latest education, teaching, recruitment and Flourish HQ news below:

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• Teacher Burnout: The warning signs

  Wednesday, June 28, 2023

  Many people outside of the teaching profession see the 6 weeks’ holiday and the short school hours and think teaching is easy and teachers have nothing to complain about. They don’t see the work teachers do at home, the long working days, the worry they have for some students and the pressure to make sure their students are progressing, engaged and focused. These factors and others, can be a massive contributor to teacher burnout.

• The number of teacher vacancies in the West Midlands has increased by over a third in 2022

  Friday, June 23, 2023

  The Department For Education released their School Workforce 2022 data release this week and shows the number of teacher vacancies in the West Midlands has increased by over a third in 2022 and the number of temporary filled posts have nearly doubled over the same period.

• 41% of teachers don’t expect to be in the teaching profession in the 3 years time!

  Thursday, June 8, 2023

  A new report released yesterday, alarmingly shows that 41% of teachers don’t expect to be in the teaching profession in the next 3 years. The report, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Report 2023 released by Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash and funded by Gatsby highlights the continued difficulties in teacher recruitment and retention.

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  Celebrating Our Flourish Champions of the Term

  Friday, March 31, 2023

  All of our Flourish Champions work extremely hard for us, our schools and their pupils. Their support, dedication, positivity and professionalism makes our job rewarding, enjoyable and easier.
  We regularly feedback to our Champions but we wanted to start recognising them more. So we asked the schools that we work with, who they would nominate to be Flourish Champion of the Term....

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  We are delighted to announce the appointment of Josh Bailey as our new Head of Finance and Operations.

  Wednesday, February 22, 2023

  We are delighted to announce the appointment of Josh Bailey as our new Head of Finance and Operations. This is a newly created role at Flourish Education and has been created to help support the long term growth plans for the business.

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  Joanne Street has been promoted to Birmingham Branch Manager.

  Wednesday, February 8, 2023

  We are absolutely delighted to announce that Jo Street has been promoted to Birmingham Branch Manager for Flourish Education.

• Open Consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers.

  Tuesday, January 31, 2023

  Following on from the Supreme Court Judgment in Harper Trust V Brazel case regarding the correct calculation of annual leave and holiday pay for employees with part time and irregular working patterns; the government are seeking views on proposals to pro-rata holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers based on the annual hours they work.

• Flourish’s Father Christmas spreads some festive cheer in primary schools across the West Midlands

  Tuesday, December 13, 2022

  This December we have been bringing Father Christmas’ grotto to primary schools across the West Midlands.
  
  Grant Taylor, MD of Flourish Education said, “With the squeeze on school budgets this year, we wanted to support schools in the run up to Christmas by sprinkling a little additional magic to this festive time of year by bringing Father Christmas to their school.”

• Schools to get an extra £4.6 billion of funding over the next 2 years.

  Friday, November 18, 2022

  Schools will get an extra £2.3 billion in each of the near two years – a yearly rise of 4 per cent. This equates to an average increase in funding of more than £1,000 for every pupil by 2024-25.

• The need for higher skilled education and healthcare roles will help offset the millions of jobs likely to be lost to technology by 2035, a research paper released today shows.

  Thursday, October 13, 2022

  This morning, The National Foundation For Education Research (NFER) have published their second working paper, The Skills Imperative 2035: Occupational Outlook – Long run employment prospects for the UK, which has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
  The research, from the Warwick Institute for Employment Research and Cambridge Econometrics, looked at changes to the structure of employment and the implications for the UK labour market in the period up to 2035.
  
  This research suggests a fundamental change in employment prospects by 2035 with millions of jobs likely to be lost to technology due to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and technological automation.
  However the report also highlights that these job losses will be offset with the need for higher skilled, Education and Healthcare roles.