The job quality of Britain's teachers before and after the pandemic

Felstead, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8851-4289, Green, Francis and Huxley, Katy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2218-2303 2024. The job quality of Britain's teachers before and after the pandemic. Thompson, Greg and Hogan, Anna, eds. Teaching and Time Poverty, Routledge,

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Abstract

It is recognised that an excessively high workload is potentially an important explanation for understanding long-standing problems of falling retention and recruitment of teachers in the school system. Recent research has confirmed that two key aspects of teachers’ job quality – their work intensity and their level of task discretion – have been declining markedly both over the long term and in particular between 2012 and 2017. However, this evidence is based on pre-pandemic evidence. While many state schools struggled to sustain their teaching while safeguarding the health of both staff and pupils, Britain’s private schools had the resources to be more resilient during COVID lockdown periods. In this chapter, we examine how the job quality of teachers has been affected in recent years, and compare aspects of job quality between the state and private sectors. For this we use data collected in two ways: from a large survey of respondents on either side of the pandemic to a short job quality quiz (from whom we select all teachers and teaching assistants), and from a survey of union members in both state and private schools.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	No Applicable School Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781003457527
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2025 14:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174628

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