Management and Teachers’ Sides of the Teachers’ Salaries and Conditions of Service Committee (“TNC”) recognise that responses to the Covid-19 situation have the potential to impact on the conditions of service for teachers and school leaders.
Answered below are the most frequently asked questions on directed time.
The NEU paper, “Measuring What Matters” is not simply focussed on the symptom of workload, but on its causes.
Survey of NEU members on their working lives over the past year, and how they view it in the months and years to come.
This guidance is for the awarding of GCSE, AS and A- Levels, and those vocational and technical qualifications considered to be similar, eg BTECs and Cam Techs, in Summer 2021.
Six important tips for workplace reps on negotiating planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time
Advice on workload and working in school or at home during the coronavirus crisis.
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Directed time is when teachers are directed by their head teacher to be at work and available for work. Find out more on how to win on directed time in your workplace.
One of the ways reps have managed to win on workload has been through the use of the DfE toolkit, an online resource developed in consultation with the education unions and Ofsted.
Teachers and school staff are working excessive hours on unnecessary tasks driven by the assessment and accountability regimes.
A survey of our members has found education staff are cutting their hours to make sure their weekends are work-free.
The National Education Union is campaigning to ensure that all teachers have a negotiated directed time calendar and that workload conversations happen with all staff this summer term.
FAQs on workload and secondary exam/qualification grading, summer 2021
This advice note is an update for teacher members in Northern Ireland as we move towards the end of the 2020/2021 academic year.
Ten tips for workplace reps on establishing a school policy on remote learning.
Leadership, Workload and Covid-19
Following our webinar, we have produced an advice note which contains FAQs, NEU checklist, and sources of additional information.
Guidance on workload and the Ofsted autumn interim visits
As negotiated by NEU along with colleague in the NITC, until individual time budgets are in place, no teacher should be directed to work more than 32.4 hours in a single week.
NEU Guidance for Members, Reps and Local Officers on how health and safety reps can use their powers can work with members to address excessive workload.
The most common queries NEU members have on balance their working lives with their other commitments.
All teachers, including head teachers are entitled to enjoy a reasonable work/life balance. This policy is designed to ensure that all teachers are able to balance their working lives with their other commitments.
This guidance sets out the items that must be covered in your employment contract (or statement of particulars).
NEU believes that the increase in the quantity and complexity of work for school support staff has now reached crisis point. This advice is designed to help those working in state and academy schools to deal with this unmanageable workload.
NEU believes that the increase in the quantity and complexity of work for school support staff has now reached crisis point. This advice is designed to help those working in independent schools to deal with this unmanageable workload.
NEU advice giving a brief synopsis of the advent of the Workload Agreement, and the ‘dos and don’ts’ for HLTAs and cover supervisors.
The purpose of this advice is to summarise teachers’ conditions of service, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).
Workload in colleges and schools has reached unprecedented levels. Take action on workload in sixth form colleges today.
Our workload guidance will help you identify tasks or activities which are unnecessary, have no education benefit and cause the most stress.
The Independent Teacher Workload Review Groups were established by the DfE to report on, and suggest solutions to, unnecessary burdens associated with marking, planning and data management.
Any actions to tackle excessive workload and working hours will be more effective if taken together, with staff and leaders working collaboratively to make a positive change across the whole workplace.
What did we learn from the first lockdown that can help us better manage this and future disruptions?
Teachers' workload problems are rooted in the education system. We need bigger ambition for change from the Government, with actions to match.
The DfE is making much of their efforts to reduce the workload of teachers; their 2019 Workload Survey (TWS) report shows a drop in reported working hours of teachers compared to the TWS 2016.
We don't need another new assessment at a huge cost to schools to 'prove' that learning the times tables is an important part of the primary school curriculum, says Anne Heavey.
Analysis after analysis and survey upon survey continue to demonstrate that teacher workload remains unsustainable and is the main driver for leaving the profession.
The problem of high workload predates the pandemic and will, unfortunately, survive it.
The UCL analysis also highlights cases of schools where stress caused by accountability is higher than in others.
Evidence from report shows teachers are still working amongst the longest hours in Europe.
UCL research into impact of COVID-19 on primary schools
The NEU guidance on distance learning out today makes very clear what should be acceptable levels of workload. Normal education is currently suspended, and teachers should not be teaching a full timetable, or routinely marking work.
TALIS shows us that under normal circumstances, teachers are overworked, stressed and looking to leave the profession.
The National Education Union (NEU) has welcomed action by the Northern Education Trust (NET) academy chain to improve teacher workload and pay.
Teachers and school leaders need to have the ability to judge what is best for the children and young people they teach.
Ofsted has neither the personnel, the expertise nor the experience, to operate its new curriculum-focused inspection framework fairly, so that reliable results are made on schools and colleges.
The NEU reacts to the result of the 2019 General Election.
It is good that teachers are spending less time on marking and planning, but the numbers for time spent on data collection are still stubbornly high.
The Government is doing a far better job of driving people out of teaching than they are in retaining them.
Commenting on the Department for Education’s latest vow to tackle teacher workload, Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
The latest data on the school workforce in England will give teachers and parents further cause for concern.
England’s teachers are highly motivated by the opportunity to influence children’s development or contribute to society – 93% of teachers cited these factors as major motivations for joining the profession, according to the findings of the OECD’s first volume of its Teaching and Learning International Survey (Talis) 2018.
Commenting on the passing of Motion 19 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: “Workload in schools remains a significant problem, posing a major threat to schools’ effectiveness and pupils’ learning and is driving the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Teaching assistants, school administrators and other support staff are having to work overtime to cope with the increasing workload as schools cut staffing to cope with budget cuts, according to a National Education Union survey released today by the ATL section of the union at its annual conference in Liverpool.
NEU comment on the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) study showing that teachers work the longest hours.
Teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians are facing a soaring workload as staff are cut and they are increasingly being expected to teach, according to a National Education Union (NEU) survey of over 1,700 support staff members.
The Government is finally beginning to recognise the teacher shortage crisis, but it remains to be seen if today’s announcement makes any practical difference.
The National Education Union has long been concerned that unnecessary practices surrounding marking, planning, and data collection in schools, is having a significant impact on teacher workload.
Initial findings from the latest NEU workload survey, of 8,173 members show the continuing scale of the workload problem facing teachers and the impact this is having on their willingness to stay in the profession.
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU has commented on the release of the Department for Education’s recruitment and retention strategy.
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the publication of the Department for Education’s response to the Teacher Workload Advisory Group report on data.
The National Education Union’s 2018 independent sector pay & conditions survey reveals that pay in private schools is failing to keep pace with inflation, and that staff continue to experience high levels of workload, much of it unpaid.
Department for Education announces pilot intended to “boost early language skills” from September - comment by Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union.
A poll by the NEU finds seven-in-ten further education (FE) college staff working in England have considered leaving the sector, as workloads rise and many suffer from stress.
The School Workforce Census statistics show the number of teachers has now fallen to the lowest level since 2013 - with more qualified teachers leaving the profession than the number entering.
Members at an Oasis academy school in London have made real progress in tackling workload.
The facts about teachers' workload.
