Pay & Conditions
The latest news and analysis on teacher pay and school staff working conditions, including pay rise negotiations, pay scales, pensions and more
Thursday
15th Feb 2024
Weekly round-up: The research drive to help teachers
This week’s essential education news includes the launch of a five-year research project to identify best teaching practice and women in schools being denied flexible working
Schools ‘reject 1 in 3 flexible working requests from women’
Public sector employers are being ‘inconsistent, rigid and unimaginative’ in response to requests for flexible working, says Unison
Thursday
8th Feb 2024
Weekly round-up: ‘Earn and learn’ route into teaching and MAT deficits
This week’s essential education news includes the government launching its Teacher Degree Apprenticeship and new research uncovering multi-academy trusts’ worsening finances
Biggest MAT dismisses DfE minimum service plan
United Learning warns it is ‘inconceivable’ that any ‘rational’ school employers would issue work notices compelling teachers not to strike
Thursday
1st Feb 2024
Government ‘taking teachers for fools’ over class contact promise
Jenny Gilruth has been told ‘teachers are struggling’ and need the government to deliver on its 2021 pledge to cut class contact time by 90 minutes a week
Weekly round-up: Strike warnings and training reform
This week’s essential education news includes the NEU’s plan to win support for teacher strike action and a major change to training and early career frameworks
4 priorities for NI education after devolution is restored
The return of the Stormont government will be welcomed by school leaders, but work to improve the education landscape will require a new ‘sense of urgency’, says Graham Gault