Teachers’ Pensions Project

Investigating teachers’ appetite for pension flexibility.

About the project

A collaboration with Teacher Tapp in late 2024, funded by John Nash, Lord Finkelstein, and Barnett Waddingham, the Teachers’ Pensions Project aims to understand teachers’ attitudes towards pension flexibility.

Outputs

Discrete choice experiments in practice

What pensions do teachers want?

For the past decade, governments have wrestled with too many teachers leaving the profession, and too few joining. This government has promised to reverse that by recruiting…

Teacher Compensation: The Case for Flexibility

The teaching profession faces stark recruitment and retention challenges. One-third of teachers leave within their first five years, the job is becoming harder as behaviour…

Twitter Thread: What pensions do teachers want?

📊 NEW REPORT: “What pensions do teachers want?”

How much do teachers value pension flexibility?

This study explores the preferences of teachers in England regarding compensation packages through a discrete choice experiment. Conducted on December 4, 2024, via Teacher…

February 11, 2025

Do teachers want pension flexibility?

A central commitment of the new government is to recruit an additional 6,500 expert teachers to England’s schools. The question is how to do it? One of the main levers…

August 21, 2024