Schools ‘facing disaster’, says union boss as one in 10 teachers set to quit in two years
A trade union boss faced disaster, the education sector was faced with disaster, after showing that 10 teachers could abandon their profession in the next two years.
A survey of 1,800 teachers found that 9 percent of the possibilities of leaving within the next 24 months were “very likely ve and more than one -third (37 percent) said that the workloads were overwhelming or sustainable.
In the survey conducted by ED-Tech platform Kahoot, only 22 percent of teachers said that their workloads are managed, and one quarter of them did not have enough time to plan a lesson.
NASUWT Union Teaching Secretary Matt Wrack, Independent The Labor Government did not take a “serious action özenmek to address the existing crisis in teaching.
“There are many factors behind the recruitment of teachers and the retention crisis.
“This is widely recognized, including the government, but ministers, local authorities or academy confidences are not taken serious action. Thus, the situation has worsened.
“Teachers are often faced with poor or abusive behaviors that are not handled by school leaders or employers.”
“In addition to all these, living standards fell due to 14 years of arcity squeezing fees and attacks on teachers’ pensions.
“This is a disaster recipe and no way to get education.”
Mr. Wrack did not exclude the strike action from the teachers in the Nasuwt Union, and it depends on how the government progresses when it comes to wages and financing for the teachers’ education sector.
The questionnaire found that more than one -third of the participants accused the brief interests directed by the use of smartphones and social media as interaction with students.
Classroom size was also an important concern, one of the five (21 percent) teachers showed large class size as the biggest obstacles to engaging students.
Sean D’Arcy from Kahoot warned that a teacher migration from a profession will “put more pressure on an education system with some of the highest class dimensions in the industrialized world”.
“The UK is already experiencing a scarcity of teachers and the continuous separation of teachers can contribute to existing challenges such as limited time and overcrowded classes,” he said. Independent.
“Educators shape young minds and prepare children to the world. They are one of our most vital social assets and the idea that many of them can leave the profession. He said that more than 250 of the survey we participated in the survey is still in the classroom.”
“The worker committed to hire 6,500 extra teachers in the UK, but even the responsible minister Bridget Phillipson admitted that it would be a ‘challenge’. I hope that the government could rise.”
The Government estimates that the VAT tax printing will increase by £ 1.7 billion per year by 2029-30, and that ministers will be used to finance 6,500 new teachers for public schools.
In January 2025, there were about 582,500 students in British private schools below 593,500 at the same point last year.
Kahoot’s research spoke to 1,782 UK teachers in June 2025.
An educational department spokesman said: “We have seen one of the lowest rates of teachers who have left the profession since 2010 last year, and this year we offer our commitment to buying and holding 6,500 more talented teachers with 2,300 more medium and private school teachers in classes this year.
“This government has announced the payment of approximately 10 percent payment awards for two years, bringing back teaching as a high -valuable profession and committing bad student behaviors, high workload and weak welfare.”
