Academics

Academics: teacher and education recruitment across the UK

Academics is a national academic jobs agency focused on recruiting permanent, long-term and daily supply teachers, together with education support staff, for vacancies in children's nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools and further education establishments. The agency describes itself as one of the country's leading and most professional agencies within education, academic and teacher recruitment, a positioning it attributes to its own presentation rather than to an external ranking.

Its stated approach is summarised in the phrase "Delivering Continuity in the Classroom", which the agency links to the development of partnerships with schools and colleges both throughout the UK and internationally.

Sectors and roles covered

The recruitment work is organised by education stage and by type of role, which allows candidates and schools to search along separate tracks:

• Early years and nursery: nursery nurse and nursery assistant positions.
• Primary: teaching, classroom support, non-classroom support and mainstream SEN roles.
• Secondary: teaching, classroom support, non-classroom support and mainstream SEN roles.
• SEN: teaching, classroom support and non-classroom support positions.
• Further education vacancies.

A dedicated team works with both mainstream and specialist schools on special educational needs recruitment. The site also highlights graduate teaching assistant opportunities and a tutoring and EOTAS line of work.

Special educational needs and support staffing

Beyond classroom teachers, Academics covers support staff profiles that schools commonly need alongside teaching posts. The SEN office operates as a distinct branch, and the agency maintains separate London desks for primary, secondary, SEN and support teacher recruitment, indicating that these categories are handled by specialised consultants rather than a single generic team.

How the agency presents its consultant model

Academics states that its consultant teams combine education sector knowledge with private sector experience, and that this mix underpins its reputation in academic and teacher recruitment. The agency also runs Academics Advance, a service line presented alongside its standard recruitment activity.

Services for schools and for candidates

For employers, the site lists registering a vacancy or requesting a call back, along with Covid catch-up tuition, client information on the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), and material on security and vetting and on keeping children safe in education. For candidates, the offering includes viewing and searching jobs by sector, quick signup, email job alerts, a referral rewards scheme, AWR applicant information, testimonials, DBS update service guidance and timesheets. The recruitment blog has announced a referral scheme paying up to £125 per successful recommendation, with £25 mentioned in the same notice; these figures reflect what the site published at the time of writing this profile.

National office network

The agency operates a branch structure spanning London and the Home Counties plus regional offices. The London and Home Counties operation is split into four desks: primary teaching, secondary teaching, SEN and support teacher. Additional offices are listed for Berkhamsted, Berkshire, Birmingham, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Crawley, Doncaster, Guildford, Halifax, Hull, the Isle of Wight, Leeds, Liverpool and Wirral, Portsmouth, Rochester, Southampton, Swindon, Stoke, Tunbridge Wells, Warrington and Worcester. Candidates select a branch when registering or uploading a CV.

Several regional listings share the same telephone number: Doncaster and Guildford are both shown with the Cardiff number, which suggests a centralised line for those desks rather than separate local numbers.

Job search by subject and location

The site builds landing pages around specific subjects and places, including English, maths, science, primary school teacher and teaching assistant roles, each broken down by city or area such as London, Birmingham, Barnsley, Berkhamsted, Cardiff, Doncaster, Guildford, Halifax, Hull, the Isle of Wight, Leeds, Liverpool and Wirral, Portsmouth, Southampton and Stoke. A quick search tool filters by keyword, education sector, NQT status and region, with regions covering Channel Isles, East Midlands, Eastern, Far East, Isle of Man, London, Middle East, North East, North Wales, North West, Other, South East, South Wales, South West, West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Candidate tools

Applicants can search jobs and apply online, receive job notifications, and use a free Academics app for iOS and Android. Registration requires choosing a branch, and the process begins with uploading a CV.