The findings, coming at a time of ongoing industrial action around teacher pay, were announced in a report published by the Department for Education (DfE) last week.
The report reveals findings from the first year of the longitudinal Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders study, which captured responses from over 11,177 education leaders and teachers during spring 2022.
The study found that full-time teachers worked 52 hours per week on average, while full time leaders worked nearly 58 hours per week on average.
As a result, the study revealed that almost three quarters of those surveyed said that their workload was not acceptable, while nearly two thirds felt that they didn’t have sufficient control over their own workload.
