School science technicians in English secondary schools
New insight into the school science technician workforce
Summary of contents
School science technicians are often overlooked as a profession. That’s why we – in partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and with input from the Association for Science Education (ASE) – commissioned a piece of research analysing how the school science technician workforce in England has changed since 2011/12.
The research was carried out by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER), and analysed the Department for Education’s school workforce census – an annual data collection of school staff in England and also explores the characteristics, pay and contractual arrangements of the school science technician workforce.