Strike day - 2 May
Gillian Keegan needs to come forward with a better pay and funding offer if she is to avert further strikes.
Gillian Keegan needs to come forward with a better pay and funding offer if she is to avert further strikes.
NEU members in sixth form colleges have voted overwhelmingly in a re-ballot to take industrial action to win an acceptable fully funded pay rise for 2022/23. This result once again demonstrates the resolve of NEU members to win a fair pay rise.
Education unions to announce they will co-ordinate industrial action going forward.
Jane Perryman, Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL, explains why only an alternative system to Ofsted can provide the support schools deserve.
Chris Dutton’s experience as a school leader during the pandemic shows that now is the time for a new inspection framework.
Head teacher Cathy Earley shines a light on the startling gaps in Ofsted inspector expertise.
NEU Leadership member Phillipa Kearns describes working at the chalkface whilst the daily worry of receiving ‘the call’ looms large.
The weight of responsibility placed on teachers has grown significantly in recent years.
The Department for Education has had to accept that it failed to provide the adequate information in its evidence document to school leaders.
Keegan's email displays a total disregard for the situation heads are in. It is not good enough to tell them there is enough money in the system if it isn’t distributed to the point of need.
Restrictive eligibility and a focus on means-testing eligibility results in many more children going hungry than are receiving free school meals.
The Government has been unwilling to seriously engage with the causes of strike action.