NINE out of 10 teachers believe the government’s trumpeted “workload challenge” has failed to make any difference at all, a new study has shown.

A National Education Union (NEU) survey of 8,000 teachers in England, published at the union’s ATL section conference today, was described as a “damning indictment” of government education policy.

Three-quarters of teachers said pressure to increase pupil test scores and exam grades was driving workloads to unsustainable levels.