Some UAE schools ban after-hours emails and cut paperwork to ease teacher workloads
The unique demands of education in the Covid-19 age led school leaders to strip away administrative duties and enforce cut-off points for work correspondence to ease the strain on staff. David Cook, chief education officer at Repton schools and headmaster at Repton Dubai, said the group had worked to reduce or remove any unnecessary administrative work for teachers. “Teacher workload was a key area as they were teaching both audiences," said Mr Cook. “We have worked really hard to strip away anything that is excessive, which was unnecessary, which was not about teaching and learning. For ...