A new generation of teachers are enthusiastic about a long career in schools, a poll for NCSL has shown as its annual conference for more than 1,500 school leaders begins in Birmingham today (18 June 2008).
New research among 150 teachers in the first three years of their careers aged under 26 reveals that 85 per cent of this ‘Generation Y’ probably or definitely want to be working in a school in 20 years, with only two per cent definitely not. Their enthusiasm contrasts with a 2003 survey showing that a third of serving teachers then expected to leave the profession within five years.