Press Release: 8th July 2008
Working with Oxford Brookes University, leading online education recruitment
specialist eteach.com has been awarded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
funding to develop a unique end-to-end recruitment service for the education sector.
The £88K grant, along with further significant investment from eteach.com, will fund
an exciting new project aimed at revolutionising the education recruitment industry.
The project will benefit from professional and academic expertise from the
Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at
Oxford Brookes University Business School.
The project aims to design and develop an online end-to-end HR service for the
education market, which will offer a total package of services to both recruiters and
candidates.
Professor Mark Saunders, Assistant Dean and Director of Research at Oxford
Brookes Business School said: “Traditionally, schools and colleges were supported
through the recruitment process by their Local Authorities, using national and local
newspapers to advertise posts. Nowadays, with their growing independence, and the
changing role of Local Authorities, they are increasingly reliant on their own
resources for recruitment.”
With its enhanced internet service, eteach.com aims to provide a ‘next generation’,
online, end-to-end total recruitment solution, bespoke to the education sector, which
will assist schools and candidates in the recruitment process, delivering savings to
schools’ budgets, whilst ensuring the best possible match of candidates and
vacancies at a national level.
Eteach CEO Paul Howells said: “Recruitment is a costly exercise for schools and
colleges across the UK with an estimated £120 million being spent each year. The
Internet is now being embraced by many schools as a real alternative to traditional
costly print-based advertising.
Using the joint expertise of eteach.com and Oxford Brookes we are looking to
develop our service offering for job seekers and transform the way in which schools
and colleges recruit their staff.
The potential enhanced functionalities for the recruiter would include online
psychometrics/profiling, support for interviews, guidance on induction, and online
mentoring. For the candidate, there would be support for CV development, proactive
search facilities, online applications linked to CVs, mentoring, advice and guidance
around interviews. There is no such joined-up, end-to-end service currently available
online, let alone conventionally, in the education sector.
The opportunity that the partnership presents is to create a greener, quicker,
cheaper, better, recruitment process, available constantly to leaders and managers in
education. Thus meeting not only the requirements of schools and colleges more
closely, but also helping to satisfy government efficiency and environmental targets
for education.”
For further information on eteach.com please contact Matthew Trace or Julian
Isaacson at Remarkable PR on 01962 893 914
matthew.trace@remarkablegroup.co.uk / julian.isaacson@remarkablegroup.co.uk
For further information regarding Knowledge Transfer Partnerships contact: John
Corlett, KTP Manager, Oxford Brookes University. Tel: 01865 484207 Email:
jcorlett@brookes.ac.uk or visit www.brookes.ac.uk/business_employers/ktp
For further information about Oxford Brookes University visit www.brookes.ac.uk
About eteach.com
With over 415,000 registered users and some 3000 new members joining every month
eteach.com is the UK’s leading online recruitment resource for schools and colleges looking
to find new quality teaching and support staff.
The award winning website offers a cost effective service, where for a one-off fee, employers
can post unlimited vacancies throughout the year at a fraction of the cost of a newspaper
advert.
In addition eteach.com offers a comprehensive range of education support services including
recruitment, HR and software products.
Eteach.com offers:
- Cost-effective solutions
- Fast and efficient service
- Qualified, quality staff
- Expert help and advice