Bridget Phillipson has mentioned no points have “fast and straightforward options”, in a letter to these working in any respect ranges of training.
The brand new training secretary wrote to all workers, from early years to larger training, saying she needed to “reset the connection” with the sector.
The letter additionally marked the beginning of her work to recruit 6,500 new lecturers, the Division for Training (DfE) mentioned.
The work contains instantly resuming and increasing the instructor recruitment marketing campaign Each Lesson Shapes a Life, the DfE mentioned.
The scheme directs potential candidates to the Get Into Educating web site, the place they will discover assist and recommendation from instructor coaching advisers, a contact centre and a nationwide programme of occasions.
The DfE mentioned Ms Phillipson would additionally meet union bosses and different training leaders within the coming days.
Labour pledged through the election marketing campaign to make the recruitment of 6,500 lecturers a precedence of the brand new authorities.
The occasion mentioned it might fund the brand new posts by including tax to personal college charges – though it’s unclear precisely when it will occur.
The coverage, proposed in Labour’s manifesto, has break up opinion. Some argue it’s a cheap method to increase income whereas others suppose it’s an unfair cost that can fall on dad and mom.
Ms Phillipson mentioned she needed to place training “again on the forefront of nationwide life” and “remodel the picture” of instructing.
The DfE mentioned this was key to fixing the disaster within the recruitment and retention of lecturers.
Ms Phillipson mentioned writing to workforces on Monday was her “first precedence”.
She mentioned the instructing occupation had been “talked down, sidelined and denigrated” for too lengthy.
Within the letter, she mentioned her dedication to training was “deeply private” after rising up on a council property the place she thought of herself “fortunate” to go to “nice native state colleges”.
Educating unions, who had strained relations with the earlier authorities, culminating in a number of days of strikes final yr, welcomed Ms Phillipson’s message however known as for pressing motion on some points.
“We recognise that none of those issues have fast and straightforward options. Nonetheless, these options should be discovered,” Affiliation of Faculty and School Leaders common secretary Pepe Di’Iasio mentioned.
And there was an “pressing want” to handle the “disaster” in particular instructional wants and incapacity (Ship) attributable to “inadequate funding, staffing shortages, and complicated bureaucratic processes”.
Nationwide Training Union common secretary Daniel Kebede mentioned he was wanting ahead to “beginning a journey of renewal” with the brand new training secretary however known as on her to instantly publish the federal government’s pay provide to lecturers for subsequent yr and tackle points round workload.
