‘Name-blind’ applications for teacher training could boost diversity – report
Teacher training providers should look at introducing “name-blind” recruitment to improve ethnic diversity in the workforce, a report has said.
An evidence review by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that teachers of colour face barriers to the teaching profession – from entry to senior leadership level.
Despite being over-represented among applicants for initial teacher training (ITT), people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds have “lower acceptance rates” on to ITT courses than their white peers, the report said.
It said people who are not white are “considerably under-represented in teaching”, with figures showing that around three in five (60%) schools in had an all-white teaching staff in
