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How many language teachers would we need to reach the Conservatives’ 75%...
The Conservatives’ manifesto has revised the party’s commitment to require all students to study the English Baccalaureate subjects at Key Stage 4. It now has a more modest proposal that 75% of...
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Assessing the use and misuse of Newly Qualified Teachers
Last Thursday at the Festival of Education, Sam Sims and I presented new research from our forthcoming book, The Teacher Gap, on the small number of schools that appear to be knowingly running a...
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The gender pay gap in academy trusts
Update, 15:50, 3 April 2018: This post has been updated, with an interactive table of the data now available. By Friday, public sector bodies with 250 or more employees had to submit data as part of...
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Four reasons why female teachers are paid less than men
The teaching profession in England remains dominated by women, but as they accumulate experience in the classroom their pay gradually falls behind men. By the time secondary school teachers have...
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10 key findings for primary school teachers from TALIS 2018
Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) releases results from the 2018 round of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). The focus of this blogpost is...
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10 key findings for secondary school teachers from TALIS 2018
Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) releases results from the 2018 round of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). The focus of this blogpost is...
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How many leaders does a secondary school need?
Our Schools Like Yours site has been updated with the latest published data on the school workforce, finance and exclusions. The site allows you to compare your school with similar schools – where you...
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Will £30k starting salaries make teaching competitive with other graduate jobs?
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced on Monday that all teachers will be paid at least £30,000 by 2022. For context, the minimum point on the main pay scale is currently £24,373. It’s...
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7 key findings about teachers’ working hours
Today, I have released a new paper about teachers hours of work, co-authored with Sam Sims and Becky Allen. This is part of a project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigating the health and...
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How well do we measure teacher workload?
Over the last five years, the Department for Education has taken steps to reduce teacher workload. This was spurred by results from the TALIS 2013 survey which illustrated how teachers in England work...
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Are mental health problems among teachers on the rise?
How many teachers are struggling with their mental health, and has this changed over time? This question has long been of interest to teachers and teaching unions, but it has recently received a lot...
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We know teachers in England work long hours. But are they distributed equally?
We have written before about how teachers in England work longer hours, on average, than teachers in other countries. And this is an active area of government policy in England. But the distribution of...
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Were female teachers more anxious about work during lockdown than male teachers?
This blogpost is one of three from Professor Becky Allen, Professor John Jerrim and Dr Sam Sims, reporting findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research they have conducted into teacher mental...
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How did lockdown affect teachers’ psychological wellbeing?
This blogpost is one of three from Professor Becky Allen, Professor John Jerrim and Dr Sam Sims, reporting findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research they have conducted into teacher mental...
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Teacher anxiety in a typical – and atypical – year
This blogpost is one of three from Professor Becky Allen, Professor John Jerrim and Dr Sam Sims, reporting findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research they have conducted into teacher mental...
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Is teaching bad for your wellbeing?
This blogpost reports findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research conducted into teacher health and wellbeing. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, there was much discussion about teacher...
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How are teachers’ working hours linked to wellbeing?
This blogpost reports findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research conducted into teacher health and wellbeing. Much has been written about the working hours of teachers over the last five years,...
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What can we learn about Covid transmission in schools from teacher absence...
The nature and scale of Covid transmission in schools is still poorly understood, despite considerable research efforts worldwide. But key decisions, such as closing (or rather moving to online...
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How is school accountability linked to teacher stress?
This blogpost reports findings from Nuffield Foundation-funded research conducted into teacher health and wellbeing. It is no secret that many in education dislike certain aspects of England’s school...
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13 insights into teacher wellbeing and mental health
Today, with my colleagues Becky Allen and Sam Sims, I have published a major new analysis of teacher mental health and wellbeing in England. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, it is the culmination of...
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