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Teacher workload and workforce attrition in Australia: The challenge of retention

Australian teachers, like their counterparts all over the world, are quitting due to unmanageable workloads (Arnold & Rahmi, 2025). These workloads are excessive both in the time demanded and the...

Teaching on the edge: Teacher mental health and workload pressures in Wales

The landscape of teaching in Wales has changed significantly post-Covid-19, with educators reporting increased workload pressures, rising Additional Learning Needs demands (Conn & Hutt, 2020),...

Editorial: Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Navigating the future of Alberta’s teaching profession: Insights from teachers and school leaders

In this blog post I demonstrate how research data from the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) draw a picture of increasing teacher attrition in Alberta, Canada, and identify potential...

Should I stay or should I go? International perspectives on workload intensification and teacher wellbeing

This special issue of the BERA Blog introduces research-informed articles addressing teachers’ work and wellbeing across seven national/regional education systems: Scotland; England; Wales;...

Filling the leaky bucket: Teacher workload and wellbeing in Tennessee

The United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...

Teacher workload in Scotland: Challenges to sustainability

This blog post examines influences on teacher wellbeing and professional sustainability in Scotland’s education system. The Teacher Workload Research Project (Hulme et al., 2024), funded by...

‘Parents are clients and students are the product’: Secondary English teachers’ workload as moral injury

Teacher workload and its contribution to insufficient recruitment and retention is a prominent theme in recent research on teachers’ work (Heffernan et al., 2022; Stacey et al., 2024). In...

Interest in leading schools has nosedived in Scotland: What can we do about it?

This blog post shares findings from an annual online survey of members of the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) (Dempster, 2024) regarding school leaders’ working hours,...

The complex pressures facing primary and post-primary School Leaders in Ireland

In this blog post we examine how administrative burdens combine with emotional and cognitive demands to affect school leader wellbeing in Ireland. High levels of stress and attrition among...

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