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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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Ofsted remove single-word judgements

The government has announced today that Ofsted will remove single-word judgements. All single-word overall school inspection grades will be eliminated immediately and a new scorecard system will be introduced next year to assess school performance. This change is part of a major reform effort and the new school report cards promised in Labour’s manifesto will

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Blue Light Card now available for teachers

We are committed to reducing teacher workload and through this helping schools to retain more high quality teachers. Part of the battle to retain high quality teachers comes from the increasing competition the education sector faces from other sectors offering more benefits. Thankfully, teachers can now save a lot of money by using their Blue Light

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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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Whole Class Feedback

Using whole-class feedback to reduce teacher workload

There are few teachers who haven’t found their evenings and weekends hijacked by a never-ending pile of marking. With different coloured pens, highlighters and symbols to use, spellings to correct and reflection comments to write, it is no wonder that marking has become an unmanageable task. Could whole-class feedback empower teachers to refocus on the

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New research on teacher workload in Scotland

New research published this month by the EIS, Scotland’s largest teaching union, has painted a bleak picture on the current state of teacher workload. The report shows that the average teacher will work over 11 hours beyond their contracted working hours every week.  The research methods employed to carry out this report included teachers keeping

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