Other educational
professionals n.e.c
Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other educational professional occupational roles not elsewhere classified in minor group 232: Other educational professionals.
- Employees (UK)
- 22k
- Median annual pay
- £35,079
- Exposure score ?
- 0.3/10 Minimal 8.5/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 8.5/10 with-tools reading, strict is 0.3/10
- Wage exposure
- £23m £656m
Higher exposure than 18% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgement, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where the work starts. Switch to With tools to see what AI plus the right context can take on.
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Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
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Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
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Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
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Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.
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Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary" (11-9032.00).
What AI can already do
1 of 32 tasks, unaided
Write articles, manuals, and other publications, and assist in the distribution of promotional literature about facilities and programs.
What still needs a person
31 of 32 tasks
Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.
Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.
Enforce discipline and attendance rules.
Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions.
Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.
Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Create school improvement plans, using student performance data.
Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases.
Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding.
Establish, coordinate, and oversee particular programs across school districts, such as programs to evaluate student academic achievement.
Plan and develop instructional methods and content for educational, vocational, or student activity programs.
Mentor and support administrative staff members, such as superintendents and principals.
Collect and analyze survey data, regulatory information, and data on demographic and employment trends to forecast enrollment patterns and curriculum change needs.
Advocate for new schools to be built, or for existing facilities to be repaired or remodeled.
Participate in special education-related activities, such as attending meetings and providing support to special educators throughout the district.
Recommend personnel actions related to programs and services.
Prepare, maintain, or oversee the preparation and maintenance of attendance, activity, planning, or personnel reports and records.
Plan, coordinate, and oversee school logistics programs, such as bus and food services.
Review and interpret government codes, and develop programs to ensure adherence to codes and facility safety, security, and maintenance.
Develop partnerships with businesses, communities, and other organizations to help meet identified educational needs and to provide school-to-work programs.
Teach classes or courses to students.
Direct and coordinate school maintenance services and the use of school facilities.
Review and approve new programs, or recommend modifications to existing programs, submitting program proposals for school board approval as necessary.
Meet with federal, state, and local agencies to stay abreast of policies and to discuss improvements for education programs.
Coordinate and direct extracurricular activities and programs, such as after-school events and athletic contests.
Organize and direct committees of specialists, volunteers, and staff to provide technical and advisory assistance for programs.
Tasks via O*NET "Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary" (11-9032.00).
What AI can already do
26 of 32 tasks, with tools
Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.
Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.
Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions.
Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.
Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Create school improvement plans, using student performance data.
Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases.
Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding.
Establish, coordinate, and oversee particular programs across school districts, such as programs to evaluate student academic achievement.
Plan and develop instructional methods and content for educational, vocational, or student activity programs.
Collect and analyze survey data, regulatory information, and data on demographic and employment trends to forecast enrollment patterns and curriculum change needs.
Advocate for new schools to be built, or for existing facilities to be repaired or remodeled.
Participate in special education-related activities, such as attending meetings and providing support to special educators throughout the district.
Recommend personnel actions related to programs and services.
Prepare, maintain, or oversee the preparation and maintenance of attendance, activity, planning, or personnel reports and records.
Plan, coordinate, and oversee school logistics programs, such as bus and food services.
Review and interpret government codes, and develop programs to ensure adherence to codes and facility safety, security, and maintenance.
Develop partnerships with businesses, communities, and other organizations to help meet identified educational needs and to provide school-to-work programs.
Direct and coordinate school maintenance services and the use of school facilities.
Review and approve new programs, or recommend modifications to existing programs, submitting program proposals for school board approval as necessary.
Meet with federal, state, and local agencies to stay abreast of policies and to discuss improvements for education programs.
Write articles, manuals, and other publications, and assist in the distribution of promotional literature about facilities and programs.
Coordinate and direct extracurricular activities and programs, such as after-school events and athletic contests.
What still needs a person
6 of 32 tasks
Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
Enforce discipline and attendance rules.
Mentor and support administrative staff members, such as superintendents and principals.
Teach classes or courses to students.
Organize and direct committees of specialists, volunteers, and staff to provide technical and advisory assistance for programs.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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