Mary Bousted
General secretary of National Education Union
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Jan 28, 2026
Why 40% of teachers leave within 10 years: workload, leadership culture and rebuilding teaching as a profession
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14:43EllieHOST
Can you just speak to some of those and explain some of the findings?
Mary BoustedGUEST
And I think the most useful thing would be for me to really focus on what can schools do.
Mary BoustedGUEST
What we found was that all the surveys done on teachers, either by the National Education Union, or if you want a more independent survey, if you like, the Teacher Working Lives Survey, which is run by the DfE and is now in its third year.
Mary BoustedGUEST
And it's a very big statistical sample, age-weighted, region-rated, sector-based, about teachers' and leaders' views of their working lives.
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32:57EllieHOST
When it comes to paying conditions, flexible working, what are some of the reasons you think teaching is still competitive when people are leaving university? Why should they become a teacher? And what are some of the things that we need to improve to make sure it is standing up against those other professions that can be chosen at that point?