Recruitment and Retention in the Post-16 Learning and Skills Sector

• levels of satisfaction with the amount and quality of resources andfacilities available to staff is very high (69% and 76% respectively).A minority of staff indicated dissatisfaction with the amount andquality of resources and facilities available (21% and 15%respectively);• in terms of subjects, science, English and engineering,teachers/trainers reported lower levels of satisfaction with theamount and quality of resources compared with other subjectareas;• key concerns where resources were not satisfactory, related to ITfacilities being poor or lacking, poor working conditions and lack ofequipment/up to date equipment;• just over two fifths of respondents (42%) reported that they hadconsidered leaving their current employment during the last sixmonths.• of those respondents who had considered leaving their present job,one third (33%) said they had applied for other jobs during theprevious six months. Overall this represents 14% of the learningand skills workforce;• respondents who had actively applied for other jobs were morelikely to be dissatisfied with their current job, to be younger and tobe from black and minority ethnic groups;• well over half of respondents (57%) who had applied for other jobsindicated that they were pursuing a job in a related sector withineducation. Just over a third (34%) had sought a job in a completelydifferent sector;• the vast majority of respondents (83%) felt that they would still beworking for the same organisation in 12 months time;• three fifths of respondents felt they had too much work to do, whileover a third (37%) reported that they had the right amount of workto do. Managers were much more likely to indicate that they hadtoo much work to do compared with other types of staff. Similarly,staff working in further education colleges, science subjects weremuch more likely to feel they had too much work to do;• aspects of this perceived excessive workload indicated by staffincluded too much paperwork, bureaucracy and lack ofadministrative support.61