Yet another survey – this time a YouGov poll of 1,000 teachers, for the think-tank LKMco and Pearson Education – tells us that a significant number (59 per cent in this case) have recently thought about leaving the profession. The study finds a general “sense of disillusionment”, in which workload plays the leading part.
The finger of blame usually points to government policies, and particularly the inspection regime. In these pages in March this year, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, expressed a widely held view when she wrote: “I believe that Ofsted is no longer, if it ever was, a force for good in our education system.” (1)
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