Get Into Teaching: Strategic Collaboration to Inspire a Generation
Saffron Teaching School Hub has been leading a project to inspire the next generation of teachers.
Working alongside the Greater Essex Careers Hub, and our regional Hub partners Chafford Hundred TSH and Unity TSH, we’ve developed a guide for 14-18-year-olds designed to showcase the exciting rewards and benefits of this extraordinary profession, and map out the range of routes young people can follow on their pathway into teaching.
The BBC Bitesize Careers Survey 2025 - a survey of more than 4,000 13-16-year-olds from across the UK – placed teaching within the top three jobs young people want – so we saw it as a strategic imperative to share advice and information about making this aspiration a reality.
And with almost half of those surveyed (47%) saying they'd prefer to go to university after finishing school, with a quarter (25%) saying an apprenticeship would be their preferred route – we’ve also shared the academic and financial requirements for each of those routes.
A real highlight of this project was compiling the ‘Meet the Teacher’ profiles – which gave us an opportunity to talk to teachers about what inspired them into the role, and where their teaching journey has taken them. We wholeheartedly recommend checking out what Tom and Jas had to say about their teacher training and the amazing strides they’ve taken in their careers so far.
The Get into Teaching brochure can be accessed here: Get into Teaching - TSH Careers Brochure 2025
You can also download the brochure here.
Share your teaching journey
If you’ve got an inspirational journey you’d like to share – we would love to hear from you.
Complete our 'Get into Teaching - Initial Teacher Trainee Pen Profile' here: https://forms.office.com/e/PKxVCybf9g