Scottish Teachers Suffer High Stress Due To Workload

Scottish Teachers Suffer High Stress Due To Workload: According to new education market research by Scotland’s largest teaching union, Scottish teachers are suffering from ‘very high’ stress levels, with satisfaction and well-being of the teaching profession a major cause for concern as they register an all-time low. The research was carried out with education professionals from nursery school all the way to higher education, although teachers in primary and secondary schools were the best represented. Females were better represented in the early years of teaching, whilst male teachers were better represented in secondary, FE and HE education. {Tweet this}

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Scottish Teachers Suffer High Stress Due To Workload

Just a third of the 6,897 Scottish teacher respondents said they would recommend the teaching profession, leading the Education Institute for Scotland (EIS) to describe a “worrying picture of a profession under the cosh”. {Tweet this}

Among the nearly 7,000 respondents to the survey, none said that they were never stressed at work, whilst only 12% were satisfied with their present workload. In addition, only 16% of respondents reported having no current work-related stress. {Tweet this}

Only a quarter (26%) of Scottish teachers felt very well in their current role in terms of health, with only a fifth (22%) saying that they had a good work/life balance. Only a third of the nearly 7,000 respondents said that they were generally satisfied with their role in teaching. {Tweet this}

Larry Flanagan, the General Secretary of the EIS Union, said that the survey results showed the effect of increasing pressures on teachers – “largely arising out of changes to the curriculum”. The EIS also published the findings on their website, remarking that the findings suggest teachers feel “they are climbing a never ending mountain…with little prospect of respite”.

The Scottish Government issued a statement saying that they were working with a number of partners, including the EIS, in order to tackle the issue of bureaucracy and unnecessary paperwork.

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