About us

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.

eTeach is born

Using the latest technology, Paul created eTeach, a teacher recruitment website that would save schools both time and money.

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.

As momentum picked up, so did the size of our clientele. We won contracts for local authorities such as Surrey, Leicestershire and Hounslow.

NISTR (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.

Specialist 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.

Launched 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.

Overseas 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.

First 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.

International 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.

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.

2017 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.

Brand 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.