One in three teachers believe they will no longer be teaching within five years, due to problems with workload, government interference and poor pupil behaviour, according to a new survey.

The research, which was conducted by MORI on behalf of the General Teaching Council, found that a third would not go into teaching if they had their time again and by a massive margin teachers claim that the government and the media do not give them enough respect.

More than half (56 per cent) of the 70,011 teachers in England participated in the study.

Meanwhile, former Ofsted chief Mike Tomlinson has accused the government of setting too many centrally prescribed initiatives.