#teacher-workload
#teacher-workload
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US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 weeks agoA recruitment crisis is coming': Readers debate looming teacher strike threat
UK teachers face heavy workloads, pay erosion, understaffing and systemic underfunding, prompting divided public views on strikes and long-term recruitment and retention risks.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoThe Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis
Can you guess which professionals in England work 26 hours of overtime a week without compensation, give up time with friends and family to deal with the workload and often find themselves on call in the holidays? Not CEOs, bankers or even doctors, but teachers. No wonder, then, that teaching vacancies are at the highest level ever. Workload is the top concern that teachers cite for leaving the profession, with almost as many quitting as those who joined last year.
Education
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoThe Guardian view on education reform: Labour risks missing its chance to change schools | Editorial
Much better to defer a white paper on special needs education in England than to announce plans in haste, only to be forced to withdraw them. This was the calculation behind the government's decision to put off until next year its plans for reform in a vitally important and sensitive area. Some council leaders were disappointed by the delay, such is their desperation about overspends.
Education
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