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A third of teachers say they regularly feel stressed by life at the chalkface

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Almost a third of teachers say that the job makes them feel stressed most or all of the time, while three-quarters of the profession report psychological or physical symptoms that they attribute to their work.

These figures – revealed in a new report from the Education Support Partnership – are significantly higher than those for the UK workforce as a whole.

The findings in the Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Education Profession 2017 report are based on YouGov research involving 1,250 teachers, further lecturers and university lecturers.

Of these professionals, 29 per cent said that they have felt stressed most or all of the time in the past few weeks (the survey was carried out from June 9 to 23 this year). The comparable figure for the UK workforce as a whole is 18 per cent. Among school leaders, this figure rises to 37 per cent.

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