Pay & Conditions
The latest news and analysis on teacher pay and school staff working conditions, including pay rise negotiations, pay scales, pensions and more
Friday
21st Jul 2023
Most teachers have to run lessons outside of specialism
The DfE has published findings from surveys it has carried out with thousands of school staff. Here is everything you need to know
Costs crisis: Just 20% of schools said energy relief scheme helped
DfE report shows how cost-of-living crisis led to some schools cutting staff numbers and turning heating down or off during the winter
Thursday
20th Jul 2023
FAQ: Teacher pay rises 2023
The new teacher pay scales have been released – but how will these changes impact teacher salaries? 91¶¶Òõ answers your important pay-related questions
Weekly round-up: Teacher pay rise and new Ofsted boss
This week’s education news round-up includes reaction to the new teacher pay offer, the announcement of the government’s chosen candidate to take over at Ofsted and concerns over the accuracy of Sats marking
4 key areas of education focus for any future government
Whoever wins the next election will have some major challenges to fix – these are where their priorities should lie, says the Education Policy Institute’s associate director
GCSEs 2023: Prepare for lower results, Keegan tells teachers
The education secretary also expressed a ‘huge thank you’ to school leaders and staff for their work during ‘a challenging year’ due to strikes and the cost-of-living crisis
How could we change teacher pay and career paths?
A number of new proposals have been put forward to restructure teacher pay and career pathways in order to tackle the retention crisis. Yvonne Williams examines how feasible they could be
Wednesday
19th Jul 2023
NEU: Third of executive vote against 6.5% pay deal
A faction within the NEU has launched its own ‘Educators Say No!’ campaign, urging members to vote against accepting the latest pay award and against ending industrial action
General election: ‘Burning need’ to prioritise schools
Competing demands for funds mean there is a ‘genuine risk’ that education will lose out in the next general election, says think tank
Monday
17th Jul 2023
‘Very risky’ to reject pay deal, NEU boss warns members
NEU teaching union members have been urged to accept the government’s deal, which the DfE has confirmed will be partly funded by tutoring underspends
6 things education ministers were grilled on today
Ministers faced questions in Parliament today over teacher pay, standards in primary schools, gender identity and registers for children who are not in school
Review of the year: what happened in schools in 2022-23
We take you through 91¶¶Òõ’ biggest stories, most important analyses and most read teaching and learning articles of the past academic year