The Teachers Union of Ireland has warned that one-third of new entrants see no long term future in their  career in teaching .

The TUI which represents over 16,000 teachers in post-primary education sad that a survey of new entrants found that over 30% believe that is is unlikely that they will be in their job in 10 years time .

The survey also found that 81% of teachers said that  differentiated pay rates among staff have had a negative or very negative effect on morale in schools .

More than 9 out it 10 teachers said that bureaucratic duties regularly deflect from their teaching and that their workload has increased significantly in recent years .

TUI President Joanne Irwin told this weeks TUI conference that ” These findings confirm that teachers have experienced a significant increase in workload in recent years .They also make it clear the deeply negative effects that differentiated, discriminatory pay rates are having on the morale of the profession ”

Meanwhile Education Minister Richard Bruton has told schools to keep costs down and that schools that don’t keep costs to a mnimum will lose out in the state funding they receive to meet their day-to-day funding .