Former Ofsted boss returns to term due to school-hit Covid absences

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Sir Michael, who temporarily returned to teaching at a north London school during the first wave of Covid-19, told Sky News that his family had previously advised him not to return to class, but he was glad he felt so. It is a “moral duty”.

The government is appealing to newly retired teachers, or those who have trained as teachers and have changed their careers, “to find even a day a week for the spring semester to help protect education face to face.”

Mr. Zahawi said that former teachers available to return should apply on the Get Into Teaching website and start the process ideally before Christmas Eve so they can rejoin the workforce from January.

Doubts About Recruiting Newly Retired Teachers

“It remains to be seen if this initiative can attract former teachers into those sorts of numbers to make any real difference, but we feel it is unlikely to happen quickly,” said Julie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). Enough to help schools when they return in the first week of January.

“We also wonder if the former teachers will have a great appetite to return to the classroom given the large number of students who have tested positive in recent weeks.

“They might have been more encouraged if the government’s responses to providing schools with high-quality ventilation equipment and urging students to test at home had not been so lackluster.”

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