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Allen, Rebecca; Benhenda, Asma; Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Surveys have revealed that teachers in England work far longer hours than their international counterparts, causing serious concern amongst both policymakers and the profession. Despite this, surprisingly little is known about the structure of and changes to teachers' working hours. We address this gap in the evidence base by analysing four…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Teaching Load, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Tan, Tong Sheng; Lim, Eivon; Loke, Yiing Jia – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of term-time employment among undergraduate students and to identify the factors that affect the number of working hours in term-time employment. The study also aims to explore if students work during term time due to self-development or financial needs.…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Working Hours, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Kim, Sehoon; McLean, Gary N.; Park, Soyoun – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2018
South Koreans work the longest hours in the world's developed countries. The current body of knowledge is built on western culture and does not sufficiently explain working hours in the South Korean context. Considering the differences between cultures and the cultural influence on employees and organizations, it is useful to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Working Hours, Phenomenology
Orr, Edna; Shapira, Anat Adi; Caspi, Rinat – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined the effects of maternal and children's resources on school readiness, literacy achievements, and reading motivation in children. The participants included children (N = 180) (124 girls; 56 boys) from 19 kindergartens, their mothers, and their kindergarten teachers. Mothers reported on their working hours, interaction quality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Mothers
Venkatesh, Shrathinth – Education Economics, 2022
This paper documents the emerging role of education in the well-known decline in US male working hours. An insignificant hours difference between high school and college graduates becomes a significant 2 hours/week advantage for college graduates within a generation. This growing "college hours premium" is confirmed in alternate data.…
Descriptors: Males, Working Hours, High School Graduates, College Graduates
Jerrim, John – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
England is currently facing a crisis in the recruitment and retention of teachers, with one-in-three newly qualified staff leaving the profession within five years of completing their training. This paper investigates several different aspects of the lives of recently qualified teachers in England, including their life satisfaction, mental health,…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Life Satisfaction, Teacher Qualifications
Komlenac, Nikola; Gustafsson Sendén, Marie; Verdonk, Petra; Hochleitner, Margarethe; Siller, Heidi – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Studies have continuously shown that fewer women than men achieve leadership positions in academic medicine. In the current study we explored gender differences in clinical position among academic physicians at three university hospitals, each in a different European country. These countries, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria, differ in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Hospitals, Universities
Tarraya, Hilger Ojos – Online Submission, 2023
Teachers' workloads are common subjects of study. However, despite the pieces of literature and the endless calls for action, this remains among the prevailing issues in education. Hence, this paper aims to explore the policies further by gathering and analyzing the implications of workload policy and working hours of public school teachers, in…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Faculty Workload, Educational Policy, Public School Teachers
Ghosh, Rupa; Lahiri, Sudeshna – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2021
Parenting holds tremendous significance in today's world as quality parenting facilitates the development of social and emotional competence in a child. The present study explores the dual role of domestic workers as workers and parents. Domestic Workers work from dawn to dusk to take care of their employees' families. The obvious question arises:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Occupations, Employed Parents, Child Care
Nuri, Cahit; Demirok, Mukaddes Sakalli; Direktör, Cemaliye – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of the study is to analyse the self-efficacy and burnout of special education teachers in terms of different variables such as gender, teachers' educational levels, teachers' daily working hours, and teachers' daily student numbers. 7 special education schools, affiliated to Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Ministry of Education…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Burnout, Special Education Teachers, Working Hours
Castelao-Huerta, Isaura – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2023
In this article, I present how some women full professors have implemented stopping practices, thus setting limits to their academic work in a neoliberal context. From semi-structured and in-depth interviews with three women professors at the National University of Colombia, this research presents their stopping practices: saying "No"…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Working Hours
Svicher, Andrea; Di Fabio, Annamaria; Gori, Alessio – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2022
The present study investigated the Italian version of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) with a sample of 645 workers (females = 65.1%; mean age = 43.9 years; SD = 10.9) according to a network perspective. We compared factorial and network models and estimated the regularized partial correlations for the five DWS domains: "physically and…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Comparative Analysis
Asfahani, Ahmed M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Family and work are fundamental aspects of life, and an individual must find a balance between both. Prioritizing one over the other can cause distress in one's life. Every individual plays an important role in their work and non-work/personal life with the aim of fulfilling their needs, but it's not always easy to find a balance, which may cause…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Work Relationship, Role Conflict, Working Hours
Amida, Ademola; Appianing, Joseph; Marafa, Yusuf Adam – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors contributing to college students' attitudes towards plagiarism. This study tested a hypothesized model that students' self-esteem, usage of eBooks, working hours, and understanding of plagiarism policy predicted their subjective norm to plagiarize (SNP), which in turn, ultimately predicted their…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Students, Student Attitudes, Plagiarism
Changing Worlds, Changing Classrooms: Satellite Children and Their Teachers in the Transnational Era
Wu, Ming-Hsuan; Opstad, Sonna L. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
The challenges for immigrants in the US and Canada include the difficulties of making a living while raising their children. Due to the high cost of living and childcare in cities, along with the realities of low paying jobs and long working hours among many working-class immigrants, growing numbers of families send their infant children to their…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education, Decision Making, Foreign Countries