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Lucinda Cameron

Teacher workload ‘not sustainable’ union says as strike action ballot opens

Teachers are being balloted in a dispute over class contact time (PA) - (PA Wire)

It is “simply not sustainable” for teachers to spend so much of their own time tackling their workload, a union chief has said, as she urged members to back strike action over a dispute on class contact time.

The SNP pledged in its manifesto ahead of the 2021 election to reduce contact time to 21 hours per week, but EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said the Government has “delivered absolutely nothing”.

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