Teachers are stressed. In fact, one report from Cardiff University published a while back by the Health and Safety Executive found that teachers top the league table for occupational stress, with 41 per cent reporting high levels of stress at work – significantly more than the second most stressed profession (nursing, at 31 per cent) and double the average across occupations (20 per cent). Why are so many teachers so very stressed? It is not hard to identify the kinds of pressure that might well explain this.
Workloads are heavy: a recent survey found that teachers in England work on average 51 hours a week, those in Scotland 45 hours – the difference probably reflecting the English use of national academic testing, which Scotland doesn’t.
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