Research has been commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation as part of its focus on the impact of flexible working practices in schools.
The first project is to be led by the Ambition Institute and will focus on whether a nine-day working fortnight – where staff have an extra day off once a fortnight – can improve teacher retention.
This project is to work with Dixons Academies Trust, which moved to a nine-day working fortnight at the start of this school year across its 17 schools.
Moving to a nine-day fortnight would involve changing teachers’ contractual working hours and the first phase of the research will include interviews with leaders and teachers to understand the benefits and challenges of the approach.
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