Lucy Kellaway
@lucykellaway
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Ex journalist, economics teacher and co-founder of @NowTeachOrg
Gateshead, England
Joined March 2008
Teachers warn recruitment pledge is at risk without extra funding
inews.co.uk
Sector leaders say the Government must reinstate funding for career switch scheme Now Teach
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What a great idea - become a foster carer for just a weekend a month- help change the lives of vulnerable children and help a system under strain. Great piece about @foster_now on World at One.
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News! 📺 Now Teach is on @BBCTheOneShow tonight at 7pm. Tune in as @Linds_bluepeter meets Anthony and Miles who are becoming teachers after decades in other sectors, and hear from @lucykellaway about why career-change teachers are so important.
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This is such a great and important new thing. Really worth popping in for an hour to find out more.
linkedin.com
Just two days to go until our next Weekenders Information Evening. We are looking for Londoners to join the growing cohort of people who want to support and inspire children in care. 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱...
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Great to hear @lucykellaway on @BBCr4today talking about the impact of a gifted teacher on our lives. Her own mother did that for me - the brilliant English teacher Deborah Kellaway @CSG1871 . Lifelong debt to her.
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Delighted to be on the @FT Working It podcast this week with @IsabelBerwick and my dear friend/former colleague @lucykellaway. How much ambition is too much? Listen and we'll tell you! https://t.co/CMRTtGKgMF via @ft
ft.com
We’re taught to dream big – but we can’t all reach the top
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Exclusive: The funding of @NowTeachOrg ‘should not be left to philanthropists’, says co-founder @lucykellaway after the teacher recruitment scheme was ‘rescued’ by donations https://t.co/GKxzcz8XVK
tes.com
Teacher recruitment programme for career changers can now continue from September 2025 despite having had its funding axed by the previous government
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Teens lack financial literacy and maths skills for digital economy, OECD report finds https://t.co/Gcmd9x3pBT via @ft
ft.com
Study highlights gap in rich countries between access to banking products and an understanding of how finance works
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NowTeach is such a brilliant thing, founded by my former FT colleague @lucykellaway. It's absolutely bloody criminal that it's had its funding cut, and I hope a new Labour government reverses that insane decision.
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How @NowTeachOrg and @lucykellaway raised the money to keep going with their brilliant work recruiting older professionals into teaching after their Government funding was inexplicably cut
thetimes.com
When her education charity’s funding was cut, some rich benefactors stepped in. They can’t support us indefinitely, Lucy Kellaway tells Rachel Sylvester
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New data shows the number of teachers leaving the profession is nearly the same as those joining - @LucyKellaway commented on the data in the Observer. Another clear sign, if needed, that teacher recruitment and retention remain priorities in education.
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And more @TimesRadio: 8.35pm @jonculshaw What Came Next?👂 8.50pm @whippletom🗞️ 9.05pm @gerardtbaker @MatthewStadlen🗣️ 9.35pm @lucykellaway edu funding🏫 9.50pm @petejenson Club World Cup⚽️ Catch us https://t.co/pMr1bQkaPo📻
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Amazing work done by @NowTeachOrg and @lucykellaway over the past 7 years, tackling not only the recruitment crisis but also the rising number of people in their 50s and 60s leaving the workforce. Completely nonsensical to scrap
Young people no longer want to become teachers and older career-switchers are increasingly stepping in to fill the gap. So why is the government cutting funding for a programme that's proven to help? Asks @annamolo_
https://t.co/vjEFbWpWgn
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The government’s pathetic response to the Now Teach scandal
spectator.co.uk
One Saturday last July, a couple of hundred people gathered in a conference centre on the bank of the Thames to talk about education. In an earlier life they were lawyers, bankers, engineers,...
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Absolutely bonkers decision by DfE to axe funding for @NowTeachOrg... They helped me navigate my route into teaching, and I love it. I see younger colleagues leaving the profession but, as a close to 50 year-old career changer, I'm sticking at it #NT2025
Parents, voters, ministers – do the maths: if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children? | Gaby Hinsliff
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@lucykellaway I went to a @NowTeachOrg event and was inspired by Lucy and her guest speaker (an Ark academy headteacher). I'm qualified now and plan to stay in teaching. While not officially part of your cohort, I should still be included in your numbers.
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Parents, voters, ministers – do the maths: if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children? | Gaby Hinsliff
theguardian.com
We face a recruitment and retention emergency when even desirable schools can’t fill vacancies. This is what a crisis looks like, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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.@lucykellaway @BBCr4today on Now Teach's value: "We help ppl who had rich + varied lives consider teaching & apply to training programs. "And we help those career changers stay as teachers too. Because we have a horrendous retention crisis." 6.54 here:
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Funds axed for teacher recruitment scheme triggering backlash https://t.co/dHkAMmWdcN via @ft
ft.com
Teachers and MPs hit out at decision to defund Now Teach in midst of staffing ‘crisis’
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