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Recent Government figures suggest that Business Education has suffered a 29% drop in trainee teachers - Is this a start of a worrying trend or merely a blip?
Buried within recent BBC headlines about falling trainee teacher numbers in core subjects was the alarming statistic that the number of applicants for Business Studies has plummeted.
What may have caused this? Granted, it does not include the figures for GTP applicants (many of whom will have industry experience and perhaps require the salary to transition into teaching) but in the era of Dragons Den, The Apprentice, Business & Enterprise Colleges, Work Related Learning and Personal Finance Education such a figure is at the very least worthy of note. So is this just a blip? A quick analysis of the same figures for the previous three years, reveals a rise of 0.3% and falls of 8.28% and 0.3% respectively which doesn’t suggest an immediate crisis, but perhaps the beginning of the thin edge of the wedge?
Well, as a former head of Business & Enterprise Faculty in a specialist school, I am only too aware of the problems of recruiting and retaining quality business teachers. However, it seems I am not alone and following a discussion with several Heads of Business across the country, many tried to diagnose the various ills of Business Education from their staff, which in their opinion is giving rise to the 29% ‘symptom’:
