{"id":21990,"date":"2019-09-18T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21990"},"modified":"2019-09-18T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:50:19","slug":"england-teachers-work-60-hours-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/england-teachers-work-60-hours-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"England teachers work for 60 hours weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Statistics show that twenty-five percent (25%) of England teachers work for at least sixty (60) hours weekly. This fact indicates that England teachers are overworked as compared to their counterparts in various parts of the world.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/ioe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCL Institute of Education\u2019s<\/a> findings, this worrying trend has been thriving despite the government introducing initiatives intended at minimizing excessive workload in the last five (5) years.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The strategies introduced have not been instrumental in reducing the total hours worked by England teachers as they have soared for the last twenty (20) years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>England teachers average weekly work<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>During term time, it has been depicted that England teachers are usually accustomed to working for an average of forty-seven (47) hours weekly. This includes administration, lesson planning, and marking.<br \/>\n<b>Nevertheless, this rate is usually elevated during summer examination as it reaches fifty (50) hours.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notion illustrated is that the average hours worked by England teachers is higher by eight (8) hours. This is compared to their counterparts in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. This disparity is, however, more substantial with some nations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, in 2018, England teachers in secondary schools worked for an average of forty-nine (49) hours weekly, whereas their counterparts in Finland recorded thirty-four (34) hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Tracking down England teachers\u2019 working hours\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>The study conducted by the UCL Institute of Education showed that two (2) out of five (5) England teachers are accustomed to working in the evening, whereas one (1) in every ten (10) during weekends.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notably, England teachers working as full-time secondary tutors revealed that they spend adequate time on lesson planning, marking, administration, and management.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nThe research conducted is based on data obtained from at least forty thousand (40,000) primary and secondary England teachers. This information was collected between 1992 and 2017.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Prof John Jerrim, a lead researcher in the study, this discovery is instrumental in tracking down the working hours undertaken by teachers over a long time.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/universities-in-england-forced-to-lower-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universities in England were recently forced to lower their fees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the radical new regulations by the Office for Students (OfS), an independent entity of the Department of Education. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics show that twenty-five percent (25%) of England teachers work for at least sixty (60) hours weekly. This fact indicates that England teachers are overworked as compared to their counterparts in various parts of the world.\u00a0 According to UCL Institute of Education\u2019s findings, this worrying trend has been thriving despite the government introducing initiatives intended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}