Paying teachers more and reducing their workloads is "fundamental" to ending staff shortages, a Holyrood committee has said.

The Scottish Parliament's education and skills committee has made more than 30 recommendations to help deal with teacher shortfalls in a report on workforce planning in schools.

These include calling on the Scottish Government to review its practice of raising trainee places to improve teacher recruitment levels as it fails to address issues which deter people from becoming teachers, such as pay.

The committee also recommends offering financial incentives for teachers from elsewhere in the UK to move to deal with areas of "acute shortages".

It further argued for the reintroduction of a programme like the chartered teacher scheme to give a boost in pay and status to experienced classroom teachers.

After hearing from more than 650 teachers and trainees, the committee's report calls for Education Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority to go "back to the classroom" and undergo short placements in schools shadowing teachers to gain experience in the reality of teaching in Scotland's schools.

Following concerns raised by trainees about the quality of literacy and numeracy training on some courses, the committee wants the government to investigate the extent of the issue and develop a baseline standard.

It also recommends the government ensure its planned education reforms, which give new powers to head teachers in a bid to close the attainment gap between the richest and poorest pupils, do not increase workloads.