Average working hours of teachers in Japan longest in OECD survey

The average working hours of junior high school teachers in Japan were the longest among 48 countries and regions surveyed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, it said Wednesday.Lower secondary teachers in Japan worked 56 hours per week on average, compared with an average of 38.3 hours a week among all of the participants of the "2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey."It is the second time in a row that the OECD has found that Japanese teachers work the longest hours, up 2.1 hours from the previous survey in 2013.Similarly, primary school teachers in Japa…READ FULL ARTICLE