272 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 274 0
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 274 2
April 2002

Maintaining the supply of teachers to schools is a major challenge for the governments of many countries, yet there has been remarkably little systematic research in the field. This book offers analysis of a number of projects designed to improve recruitment into the teaching profession in England, showing which are effective and why.

Along with the editors, the contributors are Elizabeth McKernan and Ian Taylor, Melissa Coulthard and Chris Kyriacou, Gary N. Chambers and Tom Roper, Julie Adams, Bruce Carrington, Pamela Lewis, Dave Thomson, Yve Posner and Clare Tikly, Barbara Allebone, Jenny Griffiths, Sue Kendall and Susan Sidgwick.

Ian Menter is Professor of Education at the University of Paisley; Dr Merryn Hutchings and Professor Alistair Ross are at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education, University of North London.