Nursery World - Survey predicts one in three staff plan to leave education jobs

Overwork, a lack of trust from Government, and stress from a data-driven working environment will drive thousands of teachers, school leaders and support staff out of the profession in the next five years, a survey suggests.

More than a third of teachers and education staff surveyed by the National Education Union are disillusioned with working in the education sector

The findings come from more than 10,000 staff from early years settings, primary and secondary schools and colleges responding to the National Education Union’s (NEU) latest survey on staff well-being, workload and retention during the last year.

A worrying 35 per cent reported that they would no longer be working in education in five years’ time, with 53 per cent of them citing their reason as ‘the education profession is not valued or trusted by Government and/or the media’.

The survey of 10,696 NEU members was carried out between 2 to 10 March 2021 and is released today at the union's annual conference, which is taking place online this week (7 to 9 April).

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