This week, we repeated a question we’ve been asking since 2018: would you encourage a high-achieving and friendly pupil to become a teacher.
The encouraging news: 70% of you would encourage them, and just 7% of you would discourage them.
The discouraging news: the proportion of tappers who would encourage their pupil has fallen since 2018, when we first asked this. Strength of belief has fallen too: just 23% of you would be ‘very encouraging’, as opposed to 35% five years ago.
We’ve seen similar trends elsewhere. In April, for example, we reported on the question ‘If you could go back in time, would you still train to be a teacher?’ The proportion of you who were ‘certain’ you would had fallen from 42% in 2018 to just 23% in 2023.
