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Good news emerging from Tewkesbury: Jamie Samson, the Maths teacher who was stabbed, is out of hospital and ‘recovering well’ today.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
The NASUWT will be joining the NEU on strike next academic year
89% of teachers voted for strike action on a 52% turnout
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New
The Department for Education has REFUSED a Freedom of Information request to publish the STRB report believed to recommend a 6.5% pay increase for teachers
The DfE states it is not in the "public interest" to publish the report
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BREAKING
Rishi Sunak will REJECT the STRB’s recommendation for a 6.5% pay rise for teachers for 2023-24
He claims it is too high
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Caller on another radio station:
“We’re one of the only public sector jobs where there are no guidelines about how teachers are treated by parents and carers. If someone is abusive in a doctor’s surgery there are consequences. In a school, not so”
Does this chime with you?
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TTR EXCLUSIVE
Ofsted's lead inspector for the most recent inspection of Michaela Community School, which ignored the school's narrow curriculum, has downgraded other schools with similar curriculum issues
The revelation casts doubt onto the validity of Ofsted's inspections
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🚨NEW: Gav is back!
Gavin Williamson has signed up with a supply agency to help solve the teacher retention crisis
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Sean, a teacher and one of our hosts described his typical day:
“get up 5am
Out of shower 5.30
Get breakfast and talk to partner about the day ahead (also a teacher)
Leave for work at 6.45
Arrive 7.10
Photocopying, all retrieval tasks prepared, hole punched, place in rooms where…
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BREAKING
❌ 87% of NASUWT members have voted to REJECT the government’s pay offer
🪧 77% of members said they would vote in favour of industrial action
🗳️ The NASUWT has confirmed it will now re-ballot for strike action
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BREAKING: Dr Martin Hanbury, CEO of the Chatsworth Multi-Academy Trust, resigns as an Ofsted inspector
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📢 NEW
The NEU proposes two more days of strike action if members reject the government’s pay offer:
- Thursday 27 April
- Tuesday 2 May
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🚨 The House of Lords has voted down a bill that would lead to the sacking of teachers exercising their right to strike
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Happy half-term!
We're giving away four more edu-books! 📚
For a chance to win:
1) Retweet this tweet ♻️
2) Follow us (if you're not already) 👉
You have until 6pm on Saturday 30 October to enter, when one winner will be chosen at random!
Good luck!
#TTRadio
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The BBC is reporting that the NEU would accept a 6.5% pay rise if that is what the STRB recommends
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Do you receive work-related emails outside of school hours, and do you check them outside of your working day?
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BREAKING NEWS
The NEU, NASUWT, ASCL and NAHT will urge their members to ACCEPT the government’s pay offer:
6.5% for teachers, with 3.5% from existing school budgets
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NEW: government offers teachers 4.5% pay increase from September - 4% of which would come from existing school budgets
The NEU has urged members to REJECT
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BREAKING
Gillian Keegan to unveil minimum service levels for schools tomorrow - meaning that unions will be legally compelled to keep schools open on strike days
The NEU says it does not “acknowledge the validity” of minimum service levels
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As a teacher, have you ever been told to limit how much you talk in a lesson?
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♟️Why is the government so obsessed with chess?
Half of the government's funding will go to the English Chess Federation - whose President is Dominic Lawson, the son of a former Conservative cabinet minister
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We're giving away all six of
@KateJones_teach
's books, including Kate's newest book, The Teaching Life! 📚
For a chance to win:
1) Retweet this tweet ♻️
2) Follow us (if you're not already) ➡️
Deadline is Sunday 21 November at 12pm GMT and Kate will announce the winner!
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Michael Rosen
@MichaelRosenYes
‘OFSTED is punitive, they come in and if you ‘fail’, whatever that means, then that school, that staff, that community is regarded as a failure. This is a completely misguided way to run education’ full interview coming soon!
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“I’m knackered - physically, mentally, emotionally”
So says Guardian writer
@samwollaston
after a day in the life of a KS1 teacher - and he didn’t even do his marking!
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Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that the party would also reject the STRB if in power
Reeves said any pay rise would be in line with her party’s fiscal rule - which she described as “non-negotiable” - and refused to agree to 6.5% for teachers
BREAKING
Rishi Sunak will REJECT the STRB’s recommendation for a 6.5% pay rise for teachers for 2023-24
He claims it is too high
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Gillian Keegan on this year’s A Level results 👇
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Breaking via ITV: Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’
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The four leading education trade unions have consulted their members over whether to accept the government’s pay offer for teachers.
❌ NEU: rejected, 3 April
❌ ASCL: rejected, 4 April
❌ NAHT: rejected, 5 April
⏳ NASUWT: waiting for the result (ballot closed 5 April)
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Of the 48 people in education honoured in the King’s Birthday Honours, just ONE is a classroom teacher
14 honours were for Trust CEOs and executive heads
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Hanbury:
“In recent months I have increasingly felt that Ofsted is no longer achieving its mission of ‘raising standards, improving lives’… Ofsted’s ‘tone deaf’ response to Ruth’s death has troubled me to the extent that I can no longer be associated with the organisation”
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Michael Rosen
@MichaelRosenYes
‘There’s too much in the curriculum…we’ve worshipped the god - the knowledge led curriculum - without looking at who children are, how they need to learn, how they might need different and diverse ways of learning’ - full interview coming soon!
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NEW: the NEU conference has passed a motion calling for the abolition of Ofsted
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Has your school been hit by significant staff absence in the past week? If so, tell us how...
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Regional NEU groups have organised an “Educators Say No!” online rally
This will take place after the NEU’s official Zoom meeting explaining why they accept the below-inflation offer
There appears to be a chance that NEU members will vote down the government’s half-funded offer
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NEW from the NFER…
“A 16.5% pay increase would be needed to restore competitiveness with average pay to 2010 levels... our model suggests this would have a significant positive impact on teacher recruitment and retention”
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A first-grade teacher in Virginia who was shot in school will not be entitled to compensation, having been told that her injury was the “unfortunate reality” of her profession
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“Poor Behaviour is one of the most draining things a teacher has to deal with day to day… addressing it starts from top down”
@vievewright
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NEW - TTR EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Ofsted has given all schools the green light to stop teaching entire National Curriculum subjects - after a secondary school was re-awarded Outstanding this term without teaching multiple subjects in the National Curriculum
🧵
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“[The lead inspector] said to me, if we don’t try to break the headteacher, how do we know you’re strong enough to lead a school?”
Helen Slack, headteacher, describes her most recent Ofsted inspection on ITV News
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We've been working for months on our new logo... wait... oh no...
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The DfE has given schools the wrong funding figures for 2024-25
Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood admitted the error in a letter to
@CommonsEd
, quietly published this Friday afternoon
A secondary school with 1,000 pupils will receive £55k less than previously indicated
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Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver announces a pause to inspections until inspectors have received “immediate training and support” on managing teachers’ well-being during inspections
Oliver says training will not be a one-off but “part of a series”
[The Guardian]
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It has been confirmed that the training for inspectors referenced in this letter will be a 90-minute session held online
A statement from His Majesty's Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, on the conclusion of the Coroner's inquest into the death of headteacher Ruth Perry:
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🎉🎙️ Big news!🎙️🎉
We have officially made it to 1 MILLION PODCAST DOWNLOADS!!
A massive thanks to all our hosts, guests, callers, sponsors and listeners - it's been an amazing journey so far, here's to the next million :)
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“If teachers find teaching too burdensome, they shouldn’t be in the job”
Ex-Ofsted inspector Chris McGovern on LBC with
@BenKentish
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BBC News - "Teacher strike: Gloucester teacher has 64 pupils in one class"
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It may still only be September, but over 10,000 vacancies are now being advertised on a leading teaching jobs website.
Is the recruitment and retention crisis ever going to end?
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🎄CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY🎄
To win a copy of Huh, by
@MaryMyatt
and
@johntomsett
...
1) RT this tweet ♻️
2) Follow us ➡️
We're giving away three copies, which means three winners!
One of our winners will also win a year's membership to
@MyattandCo
!
Deadline is 7pm on 29 December!
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🗞️ Even the Daily Mail comments section is supporting teachers in their pay dispute against the government
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“This school is outstanding in Maths… but I was told [Ofsted] couldn’t put any of that in the report because you’re only Good, and [Ofsted] can’t put an Outstanding comment in a Good school”
Helen Slack, headteacher, on ITV News
Full ITV report here:
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The NEU has clarified that they would only accept a fully funded pay offer
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Sir Michael Wilshaw, former Ofsted Chief Inspector, on BBC PM this afternoon:
“There are some concerns from headteachers about how inspectors inspect. The Secretary of State must meet with the Chief Inspector about what is going wrong. It is urgent”
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Clip from the BBC doc published last night:
"The journey to the prison cell started in a classroom where their needs weren't identified or resources weren't there to identify their needs, the teacher only had traditional options of discipline/exclusion" says
@lokiscottishrap
…
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Published by
@tes
, differences in earnings between teachers in England, Scotland and Wales…
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New: Conservative peer Karren Brady’s solution to the teacher recruitment and retention crisis is… for striking teachers to “find another job”
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Gavin Williamson has baffled the nation by claiming to have forgotten his A Level results.
What were *your* A Level results - and were you happy with them?
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BREAKING
A challenge against Michaela Community School by a student over the ban of prayer rituals has failed on all but one ground
Key quotes from the judgement to come
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The DfE has sent out a survey for school leaders about RAAC… on social media, on a Sunday, at 8pm 😳
All bodies responsible for school and college buildings must fill out our questionnaire on Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete if not already completed 👇
Settings with suspected RAAC will be brought forward for surveying.
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Another school introduces a nine-day fortnight for teachers - with no impact on salary, PPA or length of day
@StPetersSch
follows
@DixonsAcademies
in introducing the measure to improve well-being and boost recruitment
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If your school’s SLT said they were “prioritising well-being”, what would you expect them to be doing?
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The DfE has announced its workload reduction task force for schools
✔️ All four major education unions represented
🤔 Six times more CEOs than classroom teachers
If you could ask the new task force to consider just one thing on workload, what would you choose?
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Is your school running an in-person open evening this term?
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500,000! Thank you so much to every single one of you who has listened to a TTR show. Half a million downloads in 1 year is testament to the community of hosts and listeners. Here’s to the next half a mil 🥂
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NEW
@JasonManford
has passed the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
Manford completed his written assessment successfully after 18 months of study
The DfE has now granted permission for Manford to play the role of headteacher Steve Savage on Waterloo Road
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BREAKING NEWS
✅ NEU members vote 86-14 in favour of accepting the government’s 6.5% pay award (turnout 60%)
❌ There will be no strike action in the autumn term, even though 95% of members voted for it (turnout 53%)
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While we wouldn't normally scrutinise a particular HMI, the inconsistencies between Wilson's inspection of Michaela and three other schools (two of which Wilson was the lead inspector) are newsworthy
It raises questions as to why threads are pulled in some schools and not others
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Spielman should resign now, say Ruth Perry’s family
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New: Brave teacher barricaded his classroom to keep students safe in Tewkesbury school
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NEW: Julia Waters, sister of Ruth Perry, speaks to NAHT National Conference and calls for an inquiry into OFSTED in emotional speech (Video Credit: NAHT)
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The Advantage Schools Trust will award its teachers and leaders a 7.5% pay award for the next academic year, and up to 11% for support staff
We are unaware of any other schools/trusts offering more (or less) than the recommended 6.5% pay award - our DMs are open ✉️
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Infant and nursery school:
✅ 98% of parents say their child is happy at school
✅ 97% say their child feels safe at school
✅ 96% say they would recommend the school to another parent
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NEW: Ofsted faced criticism over its “requires improvement” judgement of another primary school this academic year, made by the same HMI who led the inspection of Caversham Primary School
🧵
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EXCLUSIVE
History teachers following the Edexcel spec for GCSE have written a letter to the exam board criticising this year’s Weimar and Nazi Germany paper
🧵
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What's a teaching buzzword that makes you cringe every time you hear it?
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Why did you become a teacher?
We want your honest answer, not the one you give at interviews.
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WATCH:
@PhilBeadle
terminates an interview with
@RogersHistory
discussing SLANT! Watch the whole interview here >>
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Gillian Keegan will lose her seat at the next election - according to a new opinion poll by YouGov
Her Chichester seat would fall to the Lib Dems on a whopping 20% swing
YouGov's new MRP model finds Keir Starmer would win a 120-seat majority were the election held tomorrow
Lab: 385 seats (+183 from GE2019)
Con: 169 (-196)
Lib Dem: 48 (+37)
SNP: 25 (-23)
Plaid: 3 (-1)
Green: 1 (=)
Reform UK: 0 (=)
Fieldwork 12 Dec - 4 Jan…
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NEW: Overwhelming support from parents for John Rankin School (led by
@FloraSCooper
) on Ofsted’s parent survey
Junior school:
✅ 96% of parents say their child feels safe at school
✅ 94% would recommend the school to another parent
✅ 90% say their child does well at school
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BREAKING
❌ 90% of NAHT members vote against the government’s unfunded pay offer for teachers, on a 64% turnout
🪧 78% of members who voted would be prepared to vote for industrial action
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It's time for our second
#TTRadio
book giveaway! 🔥
For a chance to win ALL FOUR of these books, all you have to do is RETWEET this tweet! ♻️
You have until Friday 24 September at 7pm!⏱️
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Like ❤️ this tweet if you have broken up for Christmas.
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Hanbury: “If we were to measure Ofsted against its own grade descriptors it would be judged ‘inadequate’”
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Should a school that chooses not to teach practical music in its curriculum be able to be judged “Outstanding” by Ofsted?
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Wales online reports: An experienced and long-standing teacher was sacked for breaking up a fight between pupils. The man's dismissal prompted a walkout by teachers in Swansea which saw more than half the city’s secondary schools shut to pupils on July 13.
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The lead inspector, Jude Wilson, also inspected Holland Park School in April 2022, deeming it "inadequate"
The report noted that "currently there is little provision for design and technology courses". But Wilson ignored the fact that no students at Michaela study DT at GCSE
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Sick pay (including statutory sick pay) was withheld from teachers at a top-performing London school, even for one day's absence
Staff at Brampton Manor Academy told us how pay was docked from their payslips when off sick
Read our full report:
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Breaking: a member of the TTR hosting team
@FloraSCooper
- “Headteacher 'blocks Ofsted inspection' in protest after head Ruth Perry, 53, took her own life over ‘inadequate’ rating”
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Gillian Keegan in Parliament this afternoon, commenting on all four education trade unions rejecting the government’s unfunded pay offer:
“[It is] also disappointing that they claim it was not fully funded or affordable to schools because we have confirmed that it is"
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🔥 It's time for our first
#TTRadio
book giveaway! 🔥
To win these four education books, all you have to do is:
1) Retweet this tweet ♻️
2) Follow us (if you don't already) 💙
Deadline is Sunday 12 September at 3pm BST, when one winner will be randomly selected!
Good luck!
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Do you think we’re intelligent enough to interview you?
We’re always on the lookout for guests to talk about all things education.
Got something to share? DM us and we will find you a show on which to speak!
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Five members of the NEU executive have issued a pamphlet explaining why members should vote AGAINST the government’s pay offer
They claim that one-third of the executive voted AGAINST recommending the deal to members
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A few podcasts we highly recommend over here at
@TTRadio2021
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@pna1977
Naylors Natter
2.
@dnleslie
Becoming Educated
3.
@TeacherToolkit
TT Podcast
4.
@KateJones_teach
Love to Teach
5.
@pagepracticepod
Page to Practice
6.
@PodcastEdtech
Edtech Podcast
What do you like?
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NEW
❌ 98% of NEU members reject government pay offer
🪧 New strike action will take place on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May
🏫 NEU says exam classes will not be interrupted on these days
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Why do teachers stay put in schools when they know they aren't happy there?
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Why do so many teachers leave the profession early on?
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The inspection of Holland Park noted that "most pupils finish their education in music... at the end of Year 8. These arrangements are not in pupils’ best interests"
But Wilson, as lead inspector at Michaela, did not point out that no students there study Music at GCSE
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