Teachers taking their work home with them “masks” the true scale of workload challenges, with fixed hours needed to “uncover” the extent of the problem, MPs have been told.
The House of Commons education committee also heard how most leaders have not read the government’s workload reduction toolkit, and just 9 per cent found it useful.
Experts warned the current system was “wringing” the sense of purpose from teachers and prioritising “performance over wellbeing”.
Here’s what we learned from experts who gave evidence to the inquiry about teacher recruitment and retention today.
