Press releases

Students and schools are suffering the consequences of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

We need investment in making mainstream schools more inclusive, not asking them to do more with less money and fewer staff. 

NEU committed to intensify its campaign to win a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise and greater resources for schools and colleges.

ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have issued a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus pay increase to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis.

Unless this and any future Government addresses teacher pay, workload and school funding we shall only see the teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepen.

This Government’s solution to its failure to hit its own teacher training targets is to move the goalposts.

Spring Budget throws education Into further crisis.

NEU Cymru will today open its preliminary electronic ballot over pay, funding, and the school year.

Up until this point the Government have ignored a growing existential crisis in education that is happening on their watch.

School Cuts website shows 70% of schools in England have faced real-terms cuts since 2010.

The education unions are asking their members to sign the Senedd petition

Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the NEU on the Education Policy Institute reports examining participation in sports and other hobbies at secondary school.