The historic Workload Agreement between teachers and government was under serious threat this week after ministers called for key provisions to be axed.
The government also wants to scrap limits on teachers’ working hours to allow schools to implement longer working days.
Ministers have made clear their intentions in evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), which is currently reviewing teachers’ conditions of service.
The Department for Education (DfE) cites examples of schools in America which have extended their working day by three hours and a free school here which opens for 51 weeks a year.
Teaching unions are furious and said the move could be “the final straw” for teachers who are already working up to 60 hours a week. They have also attacked the “spurious” evidence they say the DfE is using to justify its plans.
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