And the outlook was negative for a substantial minority of new teachers, with some 26% of those who had been in the job between two and five years, saying that they plan to quit the classroom altogether in five years' time.NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said:"The government is doing a far better job of driving teachers out of the profession than they are solving the issue of excessive workload.
Mr Hinds has acknowledged that long hours and red tape are among the"biggest threats" to recruiting and retaining staff.
Yup.
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That ought to surprise noone.
Wat a load of crap wat about the helpers who r on about 1 third of there pay and have to put up with the same shit for lot less ...........
That few
Teachers are leaving because politicians of all flavours have dumped more and more non teaching activities on them while undermining them by backing parent power. It is impossible to maintain discipline without the levers to do so
And why is that? Do your jobs! Come on tell the nation! Come on ! Oh no I forgot ! Can't blame Tory policy of cuts cuts and even more cuts can you!!? 😡
Haha. Dont blame them.
12 weeks off not good enough ?
CNt blame them. Trying to teach with both their hands tide behind their backs. Generally unruly classes with no control and a budget that makes their salaries a joke.
Diane Abbott response” we only have 10 teachers!”
I’ve just left the profession after 29 years, working full time, including being an assistant head and a deputy head. The workload and pressures drove me to leave as I also felt the job would ‘kill’ me in some way.
Good opportunity to phase out their obscenely generous, final salary pensions.
Doesn’t surprise me. Huge work load..planning, teaching, marking books, writing reports, inputting data, meeting targets, writing specific plans for individual pupils, becoming more & more social workers, working every evening & weekend & getting paid a pathetic salary.
This is the biggest threat alongside the depleting climate. If we are only creating data, the future generations will not be able to understand how to look after themselves. It is wrong to see education as a business opportunity and nothing more. Start fixing the system!
Teacher for 23 years, love my job and always have, but the whole system is continues to become increasingly difficult. Doesn’t surprise me at all that so many are looking elsewhere. I see it and feel it everyday at school.
Teaching fifty years ago was a vocation they would stay after school take sport and other activities on the weekends often getting to work on public transport and could hold the respect of all then the left got involved
What about the schools who are paying their teachers higher than a grade they should be paid at so that they can afford to go part time! Check East Sussex schools! Not fake news!!!!!
many teachers feel trapped in the profession because of the lack of clear alternative employment opportunities.
They won't. They know it's a much harder world outside the school gates - they're just talking up their part as usual.
I find it tragic for all of us that teachers with a real gift for education are spending time training, getting into debt in the process, and then being destroyed by utterly pointless paperwork, absurd assessments and underfunding. Teachers should just teach.
Can we add the crucial support staff to this list too please. TAs are all too often undervalued, underpaid, expected to take on more and more to fill gaps of missing teaching staff and are very much under represented... schools education
On the News page you have an article on a school that has stopped fixed term exclusions. In it you mention Progress 8 and give a brief description of what it is. Virtually every part of that description is incorrect! Woeful! Do some research.
From my experience, very few teachers last their first year and most experienced teachers are planning leaving so don’t know how only 4/10.
Pay these heroes a million pound a year. The sooner we realise teachers are the most important people in the world the better!!!
calvinrobinson Conservatives enjoy banning so many things why not ban ridiculous targets for teachers, especially those that teachers cannot influence...And blooming paperwork!
You know it makes sense.
New trouble for the world....worse than nuclear threat....
Everyone has choices...
Nappy Rash.
Planning and doing are two different things . However if one is genuinely unhappy in their job,they should actually leave. A negative attitude in the workplace can rub off on happy staff etc .Employers should not and generally do not need to work around employees.
Jumping before being pushed.
Don't blame them. To much of a dangerous job. Kids have to much power.
Frightening statistics at a time when the rise of ignorance is the biggest threat faced by our nation.
Teaching is the most underrated and unappreciated job on the planet today! This is the main reason for this.
Kids have little /no respect when they go to school nowadays. Teachers can't shout at misbehaving pupils so they don't 'upset' them. Parents completely to blame as they don't promote respect, manners or good behaviour in many cases. They give in too easy and no time for them.
Such a simple solution to all this.
Unbelievable. Thought it was way higher.