About us
A lifetime of expertise on hand to develop your professional career
Our Values
Every service and product we create is driven by the belief that recruiting a passionate and dedicated teacher for your students will result in more robust and consistent learning, time liberated for leaders to lead, a happier work environment more conducive to staff retention, and residual budget to be spent on learning.
We harness the power of the latest technology to relieve the pressures from teachers and schools and give you the creative space and fluidity of resource to innovate and inspire young minds.
For Teachers
We help education professionals take control of their careers by providing free, immediate access to the latest innovative online job search and application tools and the widest range of education-specific vacancies in one location.
Our market-leading application software allows candidates to find and apply quickly to more schools. For specialist help, our team of dedicated recruiters can support you in securing supply, teaching, support, SEN and leadership roles in the state and private sector worldwide.
For Schools
Created by teachers for teachers, eTeach is the destination for education recruitment. We empower schools worldwide to find quality teaching talent quickly and cost effectively via our continuum of services, including our industry-leading job boards, eTeach.com and FEjobs.com.
For further support, our specialist recruiters are on hand to deliver supply teachers to schools, or escalate your search for permanent teachers by targeting the passive candidate market.
The UK’s first supply teacher agency
Paul Howells left his post as a PE teacher to start LHR, one of the original teacher supply agencies in London from a fax machine in his garage in 1989.
1989eTeach is born
Using the latest technology, Paul created eTeach, a teacher recruitment website that would save schools both time and money.
2000
The launch of FEjobs
Following on from the successful launch of eTeach, FEjobs followed soon after. Specialising in the further education sector, FEjobs is now currently working with over 350+ FE colleges and training providers in the UK.
2004As momentum picked up, so did the size of our clientele. We won contracts for local authorities such as Surrey, Leicestershire and Hounslow.
2005NISTR (Northern Ireland Substitute Teacher Register)
Based on our brilliant in-house system, we were approached by the local government for Northern Ireland to replicate this for the entire region. NISTR was born and continues to provide a supply teaching register and portal for Northern Ireland schools and teachers.
2006Specialist Recruitment Agency
Bringing the first hybrid job board recruitment agency, eTeach combined technology with recruitment experts to provide a 360-recruitment model for our clients.
2013Launched eTeach HR services in 2014
Recruitment isn’t all we do. Partnering up with Local Authority experts, we created a service to assist schools with all matters of school HR including payroll, disciplinaries and leadership executive search.
2014Overseas recruitment offices: Canada and Australia
Taking a global approach to sourcing talent for both UK and International schools, we established teams out in Canada and Australia to meet fantastic overseas trained teachers.
2014First RPO (MRS) EVER for education sector in 2015
Academisation opened the door for a newest solution, the Managed Recruitment Service, reducing the administrative burden of recruitment through outsourcing it to our experts.
2015International Office Launch Dubai 2015
Bringing a cost effective and quality recruitment model to the Middle East, eTeach opened its International HQ in Dubai’s Internet City to service the growing demands of the international school market.
2015
The launch of School Recruiter
Our latest in candidate attraction and recruitment software and the first product of its type, School Recruiter is an ATS developed especially for schools and powered by social, mobile, analytic and cloud technologies with a suite of tools to attract, screen, recruit and the hire the very best talent.
20162017 National and international market leaders
Since then we’ve grown to become the leading specialist provider of education recruitment solutions. We are now trusted by over 7,500 schools and colleges and last year our job boards advertised more than 65,000 jobs to our 1.7 million registered candidates, who make more than 1 million site visits to us each month.
2017Brand new website and market leading technology 2018
The next chapter is ahead of us, continuing to bring teachers and schools incredible service and value through both technology and recruitment expertise. Our new website, supported by ground-breaking hiring technology, is taking teacher recruitment into the future.
2018
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