A staggering 47.5% of school leaders are over 56 years of age. 5.5% of school leaders are over 66 years of age. Almost 7% (6.8%) of school leaders plan to retire this year in 2021.
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
There are 16 key recommendations in the report including the following:
There is an urgent need to establish an independent taskforce to fully investigate the offensive behaviours occurring in schools.
Standardisation and risk management of online meetings with parents may be required to ensure quality control and reduce offensive behaviours and are likely to be more convenient for parents and principals.
Employers need to take the moral choice of reducing job demands or increase job resources to allow school leaders to cope with the increased workload.
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Australian school principals at risk from violence, burnout, stress and self-harm, wellbeing survey finds
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MarMarch 2021 at 1:04am
School staff in Brisbane prepare online lessons for students during the pandemic. Workloads and conflict are driving alarming levels of stress among school principals, according to a major survey.
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Four in 10 Australian school principals have been subjected to violence at work in the past year and some are so stressed and exhausted they triggered self-harm alerts in a national wellbeing survey.
Key points:
Of 2,248 principals surveyed, 38 per cent reported being subjected to physical violence in the past year