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Schools struggling to recruit staff amid huge increase in vacancies, research shows
Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) South East Region at a rally in Chichester, West Sussex, in a long-running dispute over pay

SCHOOLS are increasingly struggling to recruit teaching staff amid a huge increase in vacancies, new research shows.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said there were almost 40,000 job vacancies in nursery, primary and secondary schools — a double-digit percentage rise over the past few weeks.

The number of job adverts has increased to 1.4 million after a rise of 205,000 earlier this month, the REC said.

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