Union conducts survey and calls for change
Nearly two thirds of teachers questioned in the Island are considering leaving the profession.
That is one of the findings of an Island-wide survey carried out by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.
It was completed by 112 local union members, revealing more than half of them are angry at the way they are being treated over pay and have reduced job satisfaction.
There are more than 800 teachers in the Island.
The union is now calling on the Department for Education and Children (DEC) to introduce an above-inflation pay award.
General Secretary of the NASUWT, Chris Keates, claims since 2010, teachers have seen real-term pay cuts of up to 25 percent - substantially worse than anywhere else in the UK.
The union has now submitted a detailed pay claim to the DEC.
He goes on to say if the department continues to adopt an approach to pay constrained by Westminster, there's what he terms "a real and present danger" that the Island’s education system could be at serious risk.
National Executive Member, Damien McNulty, says one in three of those surveyed claimed they had not received the pay progression to which they were entitled.
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