Workload

Performance-related pay in schools to be scrapped from September

New list of admin tasks teachers shouldn't do will also be published, but plea for extra INSET day snubbed

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Teacher strikes

NASUWT: 1 in 4 secondaries expect disruption as teachers work to rule

Polling data shows 14% of secondary teachers and 5% of primary teachers planned to take part in industrial action

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Workload

Revealed: The 14 sector leaders on DfE’s workload reduction taskforce

Government also promises to update 2019 recruitment strategy, and new toolkit for flexible working

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Schools

Support staff needed to ease teacher workload crisis, says DfE study

Government-commissioned report calls for more 'curriculum support officers' to help teachers with admin

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

Key findings from the DfE’s leaked workload report

Survey results kept under-wraps by government show high levels of stress and impacts on mental health

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Award-winning head Pepe Hart banned over bullying claims

Ex-head Pepe Hart was banned from teaching for at least two years after being found guilty of bullying, intimidating...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

New ‘flagship’ study to solve why teachers leave

A new five-year study of 15,000 teachers will assess why staff drop out of the profession, the impact of...

Simon Kay
Simon Kay
News

1 in 4 teachers work over 60 hours a week – but that’s not why they’re leaving

A quarter of teachers work more than 60 hours per week, according to a new study, which warns government...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
News

New free school applications process reveals workload push

The government has been accused of “unsubtly crow-barring” its need to reduce teacher workload into the new wave of...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross