New research has found high levels of stress and burnout among teachers.<\/p>\n
The Teacher Occupational Wellbeing Research 2025 from DCU Create is a mixed methods study involving over 1,000 primary and post primary teachers.<\/p>\n
It found that 86% of teachers reported moderate to high levels of personal burnout, 85% reported moderate to high work-related burnout and 85% identified workload as a direct contributor to burnout.<\/p>\n
Almost half of respondents also pointed to unrealistic parental expectations, the structure of work and the challenges of supporting pupils with special educational needs as significant factors.<\/p>\n
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) said it is calling on Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton to establish an independent review of primary teacher workload as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n
The INTO said this would mirror the decision taken last spring by Northern Ireland Minister for Education Paul Givan, who recently published the findings of a similar process.<\/p>\n
“The intolerable and unmanageable demands being placed on primary teachers by the Department of Education and Youth and its agencies are a primary driver of burnout adding to substitute teacher shortages and long-term vacancies,” said INTO General Secretary John Boyle.<\/p>\n
“Excessive administrative burdens, curriculum overload, long working hours and a lack of systemic supports are undermining morale and damaging the mental and physical health of our members.<\/p>\n
“Our union is demanding urgent action to change this reality by releasing the workload pressures within Irish primary schools,” Mr Boyle said.<\/p>\n
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) said the report showed the extent of stress and burnout in the profession.<\/p>\n
“Stress and burnout are driving teachers away to other professions where they feel better valued,” said TUI General Secretary Michael Gillespie. <\/p>\n
“If teachers are to be retained in the system, we need to see smaller class sizes and a reduction in the administrative burdens that deflect from the core duties of teaching and learning,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Department of Education has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research has found high levels of stress and burnout among teachers. The Teacher Occupational Wellbeing Research 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-182715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}