Wednesday 20th June 2012

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We make the effort - the rest just clicks into place

Our teachers were recognised by Elizabeth Truss for increasing the standard of teaching in the East Anglia area.

Elizabeth Truss MP

After meeting with Elizabeth we were glad that she is on board to support the iday to help raise standards in core subject areas.

The event that should be on every

school’s calender

The smart way to recruit

Some of the great press coverage iday has received

“Could have hired them all. It has been a long

day but the use of time has been fruitful. I have

seen a good number of high quality candidates.

The most important thing is we have got some

good quality candidates that came from both

Ireland and England. Quality of teachers are

definitely appointable. When I compare the

level of teachers here today to that of the TES…

80% would be interviewable candidates that

would show up and represent themselves well

on paper. Barry the consultant is very good. He

is very flexible. I changed the circumstances on

the day and he was able to accommodate that

very promptly and he paces me very well. Barry

scores very well today.”

Oasis Academy, Paul Hammond, Principal

“We think the matching up of teaches to subject has been done really really well and professionally. It is a really good idea to get everybody together knowing everybody wants a job, just like for the schools, every ones knows that every school here is keen to recruit. It is the first time we have been to an iday and is a different way to recruit. From a strategy point of view iday is useful in having it as an addition to what we currently do. We would absolutely recommend iday to other schools looking to recruit. Alex was top- notch too.”

Farlingaye High, Cathy Laird, Assistant Head

“I found iday a well organised and well structured

event and the candidates that have been

presented to me have been of high quality. I think

it is a different way of recruiting staff and think it

is a very useful way of seeing a number of teaches

in one go in a way that does not disrupt a school

day. I have been very impressed with the quality

of teachers I have seen today. In terms of the

standard of teaching, it is great. Barry has been

very good with talking to me very regularly and

the pre-work has been very necessary. I would

certainly recommend iday to schools recruiting

for multiple vacancies. Next time I would bring

someone with me.”

North Oxfordshire Academy, Sara Billins, Principal

“The iday event run by Engage Education was incredibly useful. We have advertised for Maths and Physics posts on a number of occasions with no applicants suitable to appoint. The Engage Education staff were incredibly supportive in arranging and running the iday during which we were able to interview 8 applicants all of whom were very good, 5 were appointable and following a visit to the school and observing them teach we have taken on 3 staff and could have appointed a fourth if we had the capacity. We will definitely be attending the next iday if we have vacancies in key areas.”

Andy Daly, Swavesey Village College

“We came to iday last year and we were really impressed by the quality of the candidates we met on the day and actually employed 3 maths teachers and an English Teacher from iday and they have been very very successful. We have seen a rise in results already and we are not even at the end of the academic year.”

Cathy Spillane – Principal at the Thetford Academy