1、 1 Joana Cardim Dias,Eva Jimnez and James Zuccollo April 2025 Closing the Workforce Quality Gap Experience,expertise and stability in disadvantaged schools 2 About the Education Policy Institute The Education Policy Institute is an independent,impartial,and evidence-based research institute that pro

2、motes high quality education outcomes,regardless of social background.We achieve this through data-led analysis,innovative research and high-profile events.Acknowledgements This research was generously funded by The Sequoia Trust.This publication includes analysis of the School Workforce Census(SWC)

3、.The Department for Education is responsible for the collation and management of the SWC and is the Data Controller of SWC data.Any inferences or conclusions derived from the SWC in this publication are the responsibility of the Education Policy Institute and not the Department for Education.This wo

4、rk contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown Copyright.The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data.This work uses research datasets which may not exactly reproduce National St

5、atistics aggregates.The analysis was carried out in the Secure Research Service,part of the Office for National Statistics.About the authors Joana Cardim Dias is a Senior Researcher at EPI.Her research interests include the school workforce,edtech and inequalities in education.She completed a PhD in

6、 economics from Nova University of Lisbon and UCL,in which she investigated the impact of a technology-aided learning programme in schools,the effects of free childcare on girls behavioural outcomes,the trends and geography of education mobility in Europe and the links between community-driven devel