Teacher recruitment problems limiting pupils’ subject choices

Nearly three-quarters of Scottish schools responding to a parliamentary survey have said difficulty recruiting teachers is constraining subject choice.

A total of 86 of Scotland’s 350 local authority mainstream schools responded to the survey, which was emailed out earlier this year. Of these, 31 per cent said difficulties recruiting teachers with the required subject specialisms constrained their subject offering in fourth year “a great deal”. A further 41 per cent said it was constrained “to some extent”.

A Scottish Government spokeswoman said it recognised the teacher recruitment challenges.