This report presents the findings from the Teacher Workload Survey (TWS) 2019, which is a large-scale nationally representative survey of teachers, middle leaders and senior leaders, conducted over a three-week period in March 2019. The survey helps act as a national 'barometer' for teachers', middle leaders' and senior leaders' working conditions…

The research in this paper is the first large-scale quantitative study to look at teacher autonomy and its importance for retention in England. It finds that teacher autonomy is strongly correlated with job satisfaction, perceptions of workload manageability and intention to stay in the profession. It also finds that the average teacher has a…

This paper discusses the causes of the difficulties experienced in recruiting and retaining teachers to work in schools in England. The analysis begins with a report by the National Audit Office which blamed the Department of Education's actions as the main reason for the difficulties, then using other documented sources, reports, press articles,…

The Ashford Teaching Alliance (ATA) Research Champion project ("the programme") was a pilot intervention aimed at developing teaching expertise and practice by promoting the use of educational research in decision-making and teacher practice. The programme ran for one academic year (2014/2015) in five schools within the ATA. Delivery was…

This special edition enables an in-depth look at the process of modernization of education in England, in relation to other international developments. In particular we focus on the reform of teachers? work by examining the antecedence of the current policy of remodelling through three articles based on the Evaluation of the Department for…

This article describes forms of educational leadership observed as part of an evaluation of the Transforming School Workforce Pilot Pathfinder Project in England commissioned by the UK Government. The 32 Pilot Schools made interventions in organizational practice in ways that required them to think differently about leadership. Changes in the…

This article employs the concepts of "professional jurisdiction" and "formal knowledge" to examine threats to teacher professionalism in England arising from the British government's "workload remodelling" policy to expand the numbers and remit of staff in schools without qualified teacher status. The connection…