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How is the government planning to reduce teacher workload in 2025?

Excessive workload has long been a significant issue within education, leading to stress, burnout, and poor retention rates. Previous governments have implemented various strategies to address the issue including the Teacher Workload Survey in 2019 under the Conservative government. Yet, the fact that it remains an ongoing problem suggests that no preceding attempts have achieved

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How to understand teacher workload in your school?

Reducing teacher workload remains a hot topic within education; but how can this be done effectively without actually knowing specific areas in which educators are overworked? This post explores the importance of surveys to understand teacher workload and on tackling high teacher workload. DfE Teacher Workload Surveys A pertinent document to refer to when exploring

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Discussing the DfE’s Workload Reduction Taskforce Document …

Teacher workload has long been a topic of discussion in the education world: from teaching unions to news outlets, social media to government documentation, it’s maintained a steady amount of coverage. The National Foundation for Educational Research’s (NFER) latest report found that teacher retention and recruitment is suffering, largely in part due to the increasing

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