TWO in every five teachers predict they will leave the classroom by 2024 due to excessive workload, a survey has found.
The National Education Union's (NEU) annual conference, which is taking place in Liverpool, heard that work-life balance was getting worse.
Government was slow to acknowledge the "crisis of obsessive hyper-accountability, excessive data accumulation and inputting, excessive reporting, unnecessary bureaucracy and unproductive overwrought scrutiny".
Workload and accountability were the main reasons staff had taken industrial action in Northern Ireland, the union said.
The conference looked at the findings of a survey in which many teachers said they did not see themselves working in education in the near future.
Two-fifths of respondents predicted they would quit by 2024 while 18 per cent expected to be gone within two years.
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