The University College London (UCL) study, published today and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, claims to be the first research to look at data from more than 40,000 primary and secondary teachers in England collected between 1992 and 2017.
The research is based on analysis of the Labour Force Survey, the Teaching and Learning International Survey, the UK Time-Use diaries and information gathered from the Teacher-Tapp survey app.
The findings show that teachers work around 47 hours per week on average during term-time. This includes the time they spend on marking, lesson planning and administration. However, 25 per cent of teachers reported working more than 60 hours a week.
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