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🚨BREAKING: Teachers will strike from 1 February after
@NEUnion
members vote for strike action in England over pay
90.44% voted YES on a turnout of 53.27%.
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💥TEACHER STRIKES:
@NEUnion
boss Kevin Courtney says the union has gained 32,000 members since last Monday when the union announced its strike dates & these are mostly new teacher members. This figure means far more teachers could be walking out next Wednesday than anticipated
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👑The Department for Education will spend more than £350,000 on flower seeds to help primary schools mark the coronation
The announcement comes in the same week that schools faced their 6th day of strike action by members of
@NEUnion
over teacher pay
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Breaking🚨
The government has recruited just HALF of the secondary teacher trainees it needed this year according to Department for Education data
This is even worse than last year when 57% of the target needed were recruited
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BREAKING🚨
Teachers in England’s biggest teaching union
@NEUnion
have voted in support of strike action in an indicative ballot over pay & school funding
Yes to action: 90.3%
Turnout: 50.3%
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NEW: The teaching union
@NEUnion
which is calling members out on strike across England tomorrow has had 40,000 new sign-ups to the union since the teacher strikes were announced a fortnight ago. The union says the new members are mostly teachers.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Teachers in
@NASUWT
teaching union in England have voted for industrial action over pay, workload and working time
-88.5% of eligible members voted to support strike action
-94.3% voting in support of action short of strike action
*overall turnout of 51.9%
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School workforce data is out🚨
🔺Number of teachers leaving 1 year after qualifying in 2021 increased to 12.8% (up from 12.5% in 2020)
🔺Classroom teacher vacancies 2120 (up from 1368 in 21/22)
🔺Teacher sickness absences above pre-pandemic levels 67.5% in 21/22 (54.1% 18/19)
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🚨BREAKING
High Court rules that government change in the law that allowed agency workers to cover for striking workers (including teachers) was unlawful
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📉Applications to teacher training are plummeting & experts say we have no chance of reaching this year's targets. But the impact of missed targets over the last decade is already beginning to take its toll on schools.
Here’s everything you need to know 👇
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🚨
@NEUnion
has announced the dates for the re-ballot of its teacher members to extend the legal mandate for strike action into next year.
The ballot will open on 15 May 2023 and close on 28 July 2023.
All 4 unions are expected to ballot members this term over strike action
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Teachers on
#teacherstrike
and supporters have congregated for a rally in Trafalgar Square alongside
@TheBMA
and
@pcs_union
@NEUnion
Strikers will be hearing from
@MaryBoustedNEU
@cyclingkev
and GS of
@NAHTnews
@PaulWhiteman6
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🚨Excited to announce that after 2 years
@tes
I've been promoted to *Senior Reporter*. I'm so lucky to work with such a great team & have loved getting to know my patches & the sector
Thank you to everyone that has allowed me to help tell the stories that matter to schools 🙌
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🚨TEACHER STRIKES:
@NEUnion
says 22,000 more staff have signed up to the union just a week after it announced strike dates. Mary Bousted gen sec says she thinks "the action will be stronger bc of "a bigger membership". But it is unclear how many of these new sign ups are teachers
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As of today, (10 August) schools are no longer able to use agency workers to replace striking teachers during industrial action.
It comes after The High Court ruled that a govt change in the law was unlawful
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📉The figures for teacher training 2022/2023 are in & are far below target. Experts have called the latest data “grim” and warned of the knock-on effect on schools.
Here’s everything you need to know👇
@tes
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Dr Mary Bousted General secretary of
@NEUnion
tells me: “I don’t think Gillian Keegan (education secretary) knows what negotiations are”.
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#teacherstrikes
Dr Mary Bousted of
@NEUnion
tells
@tes
that education secretary Gillian Keegan has “wasted weeks” while other countries in the UK have made offers to unions.
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Teachers begin marching on Park Lane towards Trafalgar Square as part of the
#teacherstrikes
as the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt begins his budget speech
@NEUnion
@tes
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🚨The largest education union
@NEUnion
is set to re-ballot its teacher members to extend the legal mandate for strike action until after Christmas. And members have also voted for a 3 day strike in late June/early July
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🚨NEW: The teaching union
@NEUnion
has announced ***2*** more days of strike action next month in England, after the education secretary declined to restart negotiations.
Teacher members of the NEU will strike on Wednesday 5 July and Friday 7 July
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EXC:
@NAHTnews
has written to
@GillianKeegan
to reiterate that it expects a 15% rise for teachers & leaders for the next academic year
@tes
understands that if a re-ballot of members to strike over pay goes ahead it will be to demand these increases
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🚨NEW:
@NAHTnews
has broken its silence on the govt pay offer calling it "inadequate".
NAHT will now ask members if they want to accept or reject the offer.
"If members reject the offer, it is clear that industrial action by NAHT members will be necessary.”
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🚨Teaching union
@NEUnion
has this morning written to Gillian Keegan ed secretary calling for the leaked STRB report to be published & for negotiations on the dispute over teacher pay to re-commence immediately.
The union says that if the letter is ignored & negotiations.... 1/2
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🚨BREAKING
All 5 education unions
@NAHTnews
@NEUnion
@NASUWT
@ASCL_UK
@CommunityUnion
have written today to the teacher pay review body issuing a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus and undifferentiated pay increase
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Teachers are on strike today for the first time since all 4 education unions rejected the govt pay offer.
@NEUnion
said today the ed sec had "washed her hands of the matter, but risks looking foolish"
Govt has refused to reopen negotiations since unions rejected the pay offer
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🚨
@NASUWT
union will re-ballot teacher members over industrial action after members rejected the govt pay offer. The general secretary
@PatrickR_NASUWT
said the union is putting education secretary
@GillianKeegan
"on notice"
All 4 education unions have now rejected the offer
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BREAKING
England's biggest teaching union
@NEUnion
has set the date for an indicative ballot of members on 2 March, asking them to back strike action over pay and school funding
Could this be the start of another year of disputes between unions and the Department for Education?
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📉Department for Education statistics show the number of trainee teachers who dropped out or did not achieve QTS rose to its highest rate in 5 years last year
31,747 total postgrad trainees who began ITT courses last year: 2,236 did not qualify
Here's what you need to know👇
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Heidi has been in teaching for 20 years and works as head of English in her school. She says she’s striking today for all her colleagues who can’t afford a mortgage or “to rent a decent house”. “They’re the ones that I’m doing this for”
@tes
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NEW: A third education union has REJECTED the govt pay offer & indicated strong support for industrial action.
@NAHTnews
said that govt must “come back to the table” and that to do otherwise would be to “stick two fingers up” to teachers
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Speaking to
@NEUnion
members in Trafalgar Square JGS
@cyclingkev
says that 50,000 members joined the demonstration in the capital today.
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🚨BREAKING
The govt will award teachers an average of 6.5% pay rise from September
We understand that the government will provide schools with 3% of the funding with schools expected to find the remaining 3.5% in budgets
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A new survey seen exclusively by
@tes
reveals that teachers are most likely to quit over poor management, as heads and teacher leaders warn top-down pressure on school leaders is putting education recovery at risk
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💷
@educationgovuk
has announced its long awaited plans for teacher pay from September 2022. Experienced teachers are set to get a bigger pay rise than originally planned but the DfE could still face industrial action from heads & teachers.
Here’s everything you need to know👇
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How many teachers have joined the
#teacherstrikes
? JGS of
@NEUnion
Kevin Courtney tells
@tes
that while the unions doesn’t have a count yet “we have completely filled Park Lane which means tens and tens of thousands of teachers and their supporters”
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🚨BREAKING: School leaders will be balloted over strike action in England over the school funding crisis, the erosion of teacher & leader pay and conditions, and staff shortages.
@ASCL_UK
says "the govt has left us with no option other than to conduct a ballot for strike action"
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A former
@Ofstednews
inspector
@JohnBaldLangLit
has become the public face for a group of school leaders who have raised more than £40,000 to mount a High Court challenge to force Ofsted to reveal the evidence it uses to downgrade schools
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I’m on a picket line in South East London with
@NEUnion
general secretary
@MaryBoustedNEU
and teachers on strike. The union has said it expects around 300,000 teachers to be striking across the country today
#teacherstrikes
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The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) has recommended a 6.5% pay rise for teachers for 2023/2024. This is considerably higher than the 4.5% offer made by the govt in March that was rejected by all 4 unions.
But what does this actually mean and what will happen next?👇
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📈After news that govt could recruit just 46% of the secondary trainee teachers needed this yr,
@tes
took at a look at why some recruits might be deterred from the career
We found increasing numbers of trainees taking on part-time jobs alongside their course to make ends meet👇
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NEW: School leaders & teachers will plan to coordinate future strike action, as all 4 education unions move to ballot members over action this term
@NAHTnews
announced today it will ballot members on strike action over pay, funding, workload & wellbeing
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🚨BREAKING: 90% voted to strike in England and Wales over pay but the legal threshold has not been met due to a 42% turnout, the
@NASUWT
teachers' union has announced.
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🚨NEW: Education unions have received a pay offer from the Department for Education.
It includes:
- £1,000 non consolidated payment for 2022/2023
-4.5% pay envelope for teachers for 2023/2024 (4.3% for experienced teachers)
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🚨Education unions have written to the Secretary of State for Education calling for the govt to formally publish the recently leaked pay recommendation made by the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) and to urgently re-start negotiations over teacher & leader pay and funding
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After education unions rejected the govt offer last week, the Department for Education said that the pay award for 23/24 will now revert to the STRB process. But a poll by
@NAHTnews
has found 87% of school leaders are unconfident in that process👇
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🚩Teacher training providers are warning that teacher shortages could become more severe amid the cost-of-living crisis as trainees are forced to drop out of courses & applicants are deterred from applying next year...Here's what
@tes
found out 👇
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Today govt published its ITT census data telling us how many trainee teachers were recruited for 2023-24. The picture is "even worse than last year"
Data has been described as "dire" with experts calling for "radical action"
Here is a breakdown of everything you need to know⬇️
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📈At the end of the first half of autumn term, teacher vacancies are soaring far above 2019 levels. Leaders have warned the soaring numbers are having a “dire” & “severe” impact on schools. Here's everything you need to know about the impact on both schools & pupils 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: One of England’s biggest MATs
@OrmistonAcads
has appointed
@TomRees_77
as its new CEO
@tes
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📈Since 2010, the supply of new trainee teachers compared with need has slowed to a trickle. Schools are stuck in a vicious cycle of low recruitment + high attrition
My investigation found that danger of spiral into deeper trouble is very real- doing nothing is not an option 👇
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Teachers in England are set to strike today as
@NEUnion
holds its 2nd teacher strike date of the summer term. The union has planned a protest outside the Department for Education & a rally later outside Downing St
#teacherstrikes
Govt showing no sign it will reopen negotiations
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The
@NEUnion
march continues through Cambridge with calls of “No ifs, no buts, no education cuts”. Regional
#teacherstrikes
are taking place in the East Midlands, West Midlands and the East today
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🚨Teacher strikes:
@NEUnion
boss Dr Mary Bousted tells me that "we're going to have to move mountains between now and February 1st" for strike action to be averted after 6 hours of talks between union bosses and DfE officials today
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Teacher strikes: School leaders union
@ASCL_UK
announces its first National ballot for strike action in its 150 year history
General secretary
@RealGeoffBarton
said the union had “exhausted all other avenues” to secure an improved deal from the govt
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EXCLUSIVE🚨The government is looking at how it could boost schools’ international recruitment to plug teacher gaps amid a deepening teacher supply crisis,
@tes
has learned⬇️
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Interesting clarification here from Home Office on new immigration plans this evening
Teachers will be exempt from the increase to the salary thresholds ⬇️
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Following her speech at
@NEUnion
conference Prof. Julia Waters receives a huge standing ovation.
She urged NEU to stop campaigning to abolish Ofsted and put their energy into the opportunity for real change
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📈School leaders have warned that this term’s teacher transfer window deadline has been the “worst ever” & is causing “major anxiety” as the recruitment crisis bites
It comes as this year's recruitment of teacher trainees looks set to be just as bad if not worse than last year👇
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As the
@NEUnion
prepares to announce the results of its members’ vote on the govt pay offer, a survey by the union of teachers in England has found that half of teachers say their workload is unmanageable most or all of the time
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Speaking this morning, ed sec Gillian Keegan said teacher recruitment was only “harder in some areas” & the DfE “looks at” whether it could negotiate extra money for some teachers. The DfE missed its own targets for secondary teacher recruitment by 41% last year
#teacherstrikes
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💰More teachers are opting out of paying into their pension, new data has shown.
April 2022 to March 2023 saw a 77% increase in teachers leaving their pension scheme for personal financial reasons compared to the previous 12 months...
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The breakdown in school leaders’ confidence in inspection has been further underlined
Nearly 3/4 of heads’ FOI requests to see
@Ofstednews
inspectors’ evidence about their school have been rejected over the past 4 years
Scoop from
@msclews
@JohnGRoberts
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I've been investigating how England has ended up in a recruitment & retention crisis. One thing that kept coming up in my research was the feeling schools just cannot continue in their current state. School staff are emotionally & physically exhausted⬇️
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The
@NASUWT
has said that the turnout for its survey on the govt pay offer was 52%. Such a turnout in a re-ballot would meet the legal threshold in a ballot over industrial action.
🚨
@NASUWT
union will re-ballot teacher members over industrial action after members rejected the govt pay offer. The general secretary
@PatrickR_NASUWT
said the union is putting education secretary
@GillianKeegan
"on notice"
All 4 education unions have now rejected the offer
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Big news for the schools sector this morning. The Department for Education has pledged to scrap performance-related pay from September 2024.
Interesting move after years of criticism of the requirement from unions and in recent years STRB⬇️
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📉Unsurprisingly, MPs have been told today that recruiting and retaining enough maths teachers to deliver the govt’s pledge to deliver the subject to 18 will be a “challenge”, with schools “struggling along” without specialists at the moment...
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🚨The
@NEUnion
has said the union could push ahead with fresh strikes in July if the long-running dispute over pay has not been resolved by mid-June
"Gillian Keegan now has the report of the STRB - and so she now has to make decisions."
@MaryBoustedNEU
@cyclingkev
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Speaking to
@SophyRidgeSky
this evening, education secretary
@GillianKeegan
says the pay offer is "fair & reasonable". Asked about the offers accepted in Scotland, Ridge asks "why are teachers in Scotland worth more?"👇
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Leaders have warned that the Department for Education’s new pay offer is the “worst possible” outcome. While the figures of the offer are “inadequate”, heads also warn that the lack of new money to fund the rise will force schools to make more cuts to staff and resources
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...are not in place by the 17 June
@NEUnion
will consider further strike action in the week beginning 3 July.
"The Education Secretary needs to be clear that burying her head in the sand will not work."
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@NEUnion
asks members to REJECT the pay offer from the govt to show the Department for Education that they "will no longer put up with their treatment of profession"
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Union leaders are about to head into a meeting with ed sec Gillian Keegan for what has been described as a “last chance” to avert Wednesday’s strike action.
@NEUnion
has just announced that since setting strike dates it has had 38,000 (mostly teacher) members join.
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❗️Maintained schools spent £486m on supply teachers last year, a 17% increase on the year before...all symptomatic of the escalating teacher recruitment shortage.
Spending on supply teachers per pupil was the highest in PRUs⤵️
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NEW: Guidance from DfE confirms Ofsted will be using KS2 SATs this year to judge curriculum performance. Story to follow from
@tes
👀
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The
@NEUnion
has called on its leadership members to refuse to participate as
@Ofstednews
inspectors “until a full health & safety assessment of the inspection system” has been completed
#NEU2023
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🚨Keegan also told union leaders that she “sincerely” hopes that they will “collectively rethink” the decision to pursue strike action in the autumn.
@RealGeoffBarton
said "the government prefers to play politics rather than doing the right thing by schools, staff and children.”
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KS2 SATS: Today, the Department for Education revealed the percentage of pupils who reached the expected standard in the Year 6
#SATs
tests.
Here's a closer look at some of the data 🔎🧵
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🚨In academic year 21/22 44,000 teachers left the state-funded sector in 2021/22, up by 7,800 since last year.
This represents 1 in 10 (9.7%) of all qualified teachers; the highest rate since 2017/18....
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Among all the Dept for Education data today, it would've been easy to miss that a senior government official admitted some MATs’ budget forecasts “weren’t worth the paper” they were written on last year because the announcement on teacher pay came after MATs had submitted them...
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Christine has been a teacher for 30 years and thinks education is in “crisis”. Christine says “we are short changing children and the govt have to do something”. “We can’t recruit and we can’t retain”
#TeacherStrike
Last year the govt missed its secondary teacher trainee 1/
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BREAKING: The Department for Education has called for a lower teacher pay rise next year
The government has recommended teacher pay awards return to ‘a more sustainable level’ for 2024-2025
Teacher pay rose by 6.5% this year⬇️
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🚨The
@NAHTnews
has rejected the govt pay offer and has said that the government must “come back to the table” and that to do otherwise would be to “stick two fingers up” to teachers
NEW: A third education union has REJECTED the govt pay offer & indicated strong support for industrial action.
@NAHTnews
said that govt must “come back to the table” and that to do otherwise would be to “stick two fingers up” to teachers
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The
#teacherstrikes
procession continues towards parliament. There are also parents and pupils here in solidarity with their teachers. They tell me their teachers are “amazing” and are “not supported enough”
@NEUnion
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Following reports the PM was prepared to block public sector workers' recommended pay rises (including teachers) over concerns about stoking inflation, education unions have warned that a 6.5% pay rise for teachers is the “bare minimum” that is needed
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BREAKING🚨
@NEUnion
TEACHER STRIKE ACTION IN ENGLAND TO END
The largest education union says that further strike action over 2023/24 pay will not ahead after teacher members in England agreed to accept the 6.5% pay rise awarded by the govt from September
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Speaking this morning, joint general secretary of
@NEUnion
Kevin Courtney said the Government pay offer “galvanised” other education unions to ballot members for strike action
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NEW: The
@CommonsEd
has launched an inquiry into teacher recruitment, training and retention. The inquiry will look at steps the Department for Education has taken to address the challenges in R&R and compare the sector's problems with other professions & sectors of the economy🔎
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Teacher pay: While the DfE will miss the deadline for its submission to the STRB, heads union
@NAHTnews
has accused the pay review process of having “failed” the education profession and demanded a 15% “uplift” in leader and teacher pay next year
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