Our annual teaching careers survey is live. Share your insights into workload,work-life balance and job hunting by taking partThe teaching profession is in crisis. As the student population grows exponentially, the government has failed to hit its recruitment targets for four years and record numbers of teachers are leaving the profession. This isn’t a distant problem that will hit schools in five or 10 years’ time – it’s happening factual now.
This is the backdrop to the Guardian Teacher Network and Guardian Jobs’ new research project, or Beyond the Timetable – the reality of teachers’ lives,sponsored by CJA. We want to find out what’s causing teachers to leave in their droves, how schools are coping with the recruitment and retention emergency, and what can be done to rectify the situation.
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Source: theguardian.com