2 in 5 teachers work 26 hours for free each week

A TUC survey finds teaching staff perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession, losing out on £15,000 a year each; 2 in 5 teachers are working 26 hours unpaid overtime on a weekly basis

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/23/daylight-robbery-two-in-five-uk-teachers-work-26-hours-for-free-each-week

If you're at school, do you see teachers who do this?
How do you feel about it?

Pretty daft innit. They should just go home.

A TUC survey finds teaching staff perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession, losing out on £15,000 a year each; 2 in 5 teachers are working 26 hours unpaid overtime on a weekly basis

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/23/daylight-robbery-two-in-five-uk-teachers-work-26-hours-for-free-each-week

If you're at school, do you see teachers who do this?
How do you feel about it?

I'm sure they're broadly correct. But would you expect the Trade Union Council to come to a conclusion other than one which supports its members (i.e. teachers)?

The Department of Education conducts it's own annual workload analysis. The results don't deviate from the TUC report.

In fact, at a quick glance, the TUC seem to have used ONS data than their own.

Hence why I said I'm sure it's broadly correct.

My point was more about how much one can trust the research from overtly political organizations who have big conflicts of interest, when forming views on certain areas. And it's not just whether x piece of research is correct/incorrect, more that you simply can't rely on certain organisation for balanced views, which makes them less useful for reading if you're time constrained

Point taken in a broad sense.

However, in this case, successive Education Secretaries, Schools Ministers and the DofE don't disagree with the TUC that there is excessive workload within the teaching profession, with the DofE citing workload as a significant factor in recruitment and retention. There is an ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into teacher recruitment/retention which will likely reiterate this point. You'll find identical stances from policy/research groups like the EPI and IOE. This is very much a consensus across the board on this issue. The problem is DofE and school policies to reduce workload have been largely ineffective.

I guess my point is more that would you ever expect the TUC to come to a different conclusion, regardless whether they're correct/incorrect on this specific issue? Again, I'm not disagreeing with the conclusions on this specific issue.

And if you can guess the conclusion of an organization's 'rigorous' research before it's published every single time.... makes you question how useful their research is vs less political organizations such as the IoE which you use as an example and I think are pretty good. I just don't really get what research from the TUC really adds beyond that of less partisan organizations (beyond trying to make them seem more credible than they are).

I guess my point is more that would you ever expect the TUC to come to a different conclusion, regardless whether they're correct/incorrect on this specific issue? Again, I'm not disagreeing with the conclusions on this specific issue.
And if you can guess the conclusion of an organization's 'rigorous' research before it's published every single time.... makes you question how useful their research is vs less political organizations such as the IoE which you use as an example and I think are pretty good. I just don't really get what research from the TUC really adds beyond that of less partisan organizations (beyond trying to make them seem more credible than they are).

The point of the article, this thread, any other discussions on this topic is not that the TUC is the one drawing the conclusion.

The figures are from the ONS.

The point of the article, this thread and any other discussions on the topic is plainly that a large number of unpaid hours are being worked by teachers. This is common knowledge, though perhaps the scale of this issue is not fully known. Let me ask you: did the numbers surprise you?