'If you don't see people in those jobs who look like you, who have similar backgrounds and experiences to you, then it's really hard to imagine yourself doing that job.'
- schools where more than 20% of their teachers are from minority ethnic backgroundsSource: University College London, 2020
"Classroom-based teachers and support staff are very diverse. Middle leaders are very diverse. But the School Leadership Team is not diverse at all." Prof Alice Bradbury, co-author of the study, told us there's "a big issue with teacher retention in general… but teachers from minority backgrounds tended to have even lower retention rates than white British teachers"."There was a feeling that there was a sort of point at which the barriers started to come up," she said. "That it was noticeable that the senior leadership teams were not as diverse as the rest of the school.
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