Bridget Phillipson's proposal to remove the four headline grades that Ofsted currently awards is a welcome step towards addressing inspection issues.
In responding to the pay claims of teachers ‘ unions, the government responds with the same refrains – “There’s no money".
After days of intensive negotiation, the education unions ASCL, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have been presented with a pay offer by the education Secretary.
The latest NFER report shows what many of us in the education sector have long feared about the state of teacher recruitment and retention: this crisis is entrenched, and it cuts deep and hard.
73% of NEU teacher members in Wales who responded to the union’s consultation have voted to ACCEPT the pay offer put forward by the Welsh Government, and end the dispute.
Mae 73% o athrawon sy’n aelodau o’r NEU yng Nghymru, a ymatebodd i ymgynghoriad yr undeb, wedi pleidleisio i DDERBYN y cynnig cyflog a gyflwynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, a dod â’r anghydfod i ben.
Eight trade unions representing teachers and other education staff in the UK and Ireland have called on the Israeli Government to halt the demolition of Jubbet ad Dib School in the West Bank.
Around 800,000 Rohingya refugees fled genocidal attacks by the Burmese military in 2017.
The NEU is deeply shocked and saddened by the horrific killing of at least 38 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a nursery in Nong Bua Lamphu province of north-east Thailand on 6 October.
Reports of the humanitarian emergency unfolding at Manston immigration processing centre this week must lead urgently to swift action.
Trade unionists in Canada are celebrating the defeat of Doug Ford’s draconian anti-worker legislation.
As nationwide protests move into a second month in Iran, the NEU continues to stand in solidarity with Iranian teacher unions and all those moving to defend human rights across the country.
