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Managers · code 1345

Education managers

Education managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the educational and administrative aspects of education services, primary and secondary schools, colleges and faculties and departments in universities and other educational institutions. Tasks include - (a) determining educational programmes based on frameworks established by education authorities and governing bodies; (b) implementing systems and procedures to monitor school performance and student enrolments; (c) directing administrative and clerical activities concerning student admissions and educational services; (d) controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation, and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services; (e) providing leadership and guidance to teaching, academic and administrative staff as well as to students; (f) evaluating the work of teachers and lecturers by visiting classrooms, observing teaching methods, reviewing instructional objectives and examining learning materials; (g) promoting the educational programme, and representing the service or institution in the wider community; (h) supervising the maintenance of educational facilities; (i) developing and enforcing a disciplinary code to create a safe and conducive environment for students and teachers; (j) organizing and implementing methods of raising additional funds in conjunction with parent and community groups and sponsors; (k) controlling selection, training and supervision of staff. Examples of the occupations classified here: - College director - Dean (university) - Head teacher - School principal

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 286 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • headteacher

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

63.7
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36.3 = 63.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

18
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

4.8
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 10.7 · hand skill 0 · cramped spaces 3.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 18 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 56.5, while the average is 36.3. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 56.5

    Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation, and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services

    Medium
  2. 47.5

    Promoting the educational programme, and representing the service or institution in the wider community

    Low
  3. 43.5

    Implementing systems and procedures to monitor school performance and student enrolments

    Low
  4. 41

    Determining educational programmes based on frameworks established by education authorities and governing bodies

    Low
  5. 40

    Directing administrative and clerical activities concerning student admissions and educational services

    Low
  6. 31.8

    Organizing and implementing methods of raising additional funds in conjunction with parent and community groups and sponsors

    Low
  7. 30.5

    Providing leadership and guidance to teaching, academic and administrative staff as well as to students

    Low
  8. 30.5

    Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff.

    Low
  9. 26.3

    Evaluating the work of teachers and lecturers by visiting classrooms, observing teaching methods, reviewing instructional objectives and examining learning materials

    Low
  10. 26

    Developing and enforcing a disciplinary code to create a safe and conducive environment for students and teachers

    Low
  11. 25.8

    Supervising the maintenance of educational facilities

    Low

11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
70
AI does it for you
37.5

Helping wins by 32.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1343, 1344

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.9. This one is below that.