TEACHERS face increased workloads and behavioural issues as they work 54 hours a week on average, a new survey has found.

Teaching union NASUWT is discussing the issue of violence in schools at its annual conference being held in Glasgow.

It comes after a series of videos were posted online showing pupils being violent within the classroom earlier this year.

Earlier this year, a “horrific” video of an attack on a girl in a classroom in Fife raised fears about violence in schools across the country.

A Fife Council showed incidents doubled in the last two years.

National official of the NASUWT Scotland Mike Corbett said: “I do not think there is any doubt that as we emerge form Covid there are significant behavioural problems in schools.

“Yes, it covers violent incidents and we have seen some of them recently but right through to pupils just seemingly not being willing to follow rules and keep to boundaries.

“Often teachers feel they are not getting enough support in terms of consequences for those pupils who are disrupting not just their own education but the education of others in the class.”

Scotland’s new education secretary is being urged to solve the issues within schools by the NASUWT.

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