双语新闻 | “孩子头”不好当？英国50岁以下中小学领导辞职人数不断增加

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More headteachers are quitting their posts within a few years of being appointed amid warnings that leadership supply for schools is “teetering on the brink”.

The National Association of Head Teachers said the Government needed to increase pay and implement a leadership strategy to “stem to ever-worsening losses”.

The Department for Education collects annual data for schools in England which report the number of headteachers, assistant and deputy heads, and middle leaders – aged under 50 and new to post – who leave their role within five years of being appointed.

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英国中小学领导被任命后几年内就辞职的数量不断增加，国内中小学的领导力供应 “濒临崩溃”。

英国全国中小学校长协会表示，政府应当为从业者涨薪并实施适当的领导策略来应对愈演愈烈的人员流失情况。

英国教育部汇集了英格兰各学校的年度数据，数据中记录了那些被任命五年之内离职的、50岁以下的学校领导、助理、副职和中层领导的数量。

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图源：英国“iNews”网站

The latest figures, obtained by the NAHT through a Freedom of Information request, reveal that five-year retention rates have worsened in every category of school leadership since these data were last published in 2018.

More than one in four primary school leaders, and more than one in three secondary school leaders either leave the state school system or move to a lower job role within five years.

Nearly half of middle leaders in primary and secondary schools leave within five years.

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英国全国中小学校长协会依据信息自由法申请获得的最新数据显示，自2018年最后一次资料发布以来，学校各领导层的五年内留存率都在下降。

超过1/4的小学领导离职，超过1/3的中学领导离开公立教育系统或是在薪资更低的岗位就职。

近一半的中小学中层领导在五年内离职。

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Paul Whiteman, the NAHT’s general secretary, said: “Leadership supply for our schools is teetering on the brink. School leaders’ pay has been cut by 15 per cent in real terms since 2010, and this, in combination with high-stakes accountability, crushing workload, long hours, and inadequate school funding, is driving leaders from the job they love.”

He added: “NAHT has pressed the DfE, literally for years, to act on this crisis, but the DfE remains in denial about the systemic problems afflicting the profession.

He said: “We urgently need the Government to work with us to build a new, fair deal on pay, workload and accountability, to relieve the extraordinary pressures on the profession and make a life-long career in education attractive and sustainable.”

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全国中小学校长协会秘书长保罗·惠特曼谈到，“国内学校的领导力供应濒临崩溃。2010年以来，中小学领导的实际薪酬减少15%，再加上高风险的问责制、沉重的工作量、漫长的工作时间和不充足的学校资金，这些因素迫使领导们离开他们热爱的工作。

他补充到，协会已经向教育部施压，要求他们对这场危机采取行动，但教育部仍然否认影响该行业的系统性问题。

他指出，“我们迫切地需要政府和我们一道建立起一个薪酬待遇、责任制度和工作量都公平合理的新局面，以此来减轻巨大的压力，并使教育成为一份具有吸引力和可持续性的终身职业。”

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A recent survey by the NAHT found steeply rising levels of dissatisfaction among school leaders, with the number who would recommend school leadership as a career falling from 47 per cent to 30 per cent between 2020 and 2021.

A DfE spokesperson said: “The overall picture of school leadership in England is positive – vacancy rates are low and the quality of leadership is high, but we do recognise school leaders have faced challenges.

“That is why we are taking a wide range of action to support the profession, including investing £250m in training opportunities across all stages of teachers’ careers, plus the Government’s pay reforms giving schools greater flexibility to reward exceptional leaders.”

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全国中小学校长协会最近的一项调查显示，校领导的不满情绪陡然提升，2020-2021年间推荐从事校领导一职的数量占比从47%下降至30%。

教育部发言人表示，英国校领导的职位空置率比较低，领导层质量也很高，整体情况是积极的。“但我们也确实意识到了学校的领导们也面临一些挑战。”

“这也是为何我们采取了包括投资2.5亿英镑用于教师职业生涯各阶段的培训、在政府薪酬改革下富裕学校更大的灵活性来对杰出领导进行奖励。”

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来源：英国“iNews”网站、环球网等，图片源于网络，如侵删。

记者：王博

监制：李璨

责任编辑：杨冬妮