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This week’s essential news and analysis features all the reaction to the new teacher pay offer, including plans for more strikes, heads’ warnings about funding the increase and a plea from the education secretary

Education secretary issued plea to school leaders in an email last night, setting out how its new teacher pay offer would be funded

The NAHT school leaders’ union has broken its silence on the government’s pay offer, calling it ‘inadequate’

If members reject new government pay offer, two further days of strike action will be planned next term, says union

The latest talks between the government and education unions have ended with a pay offer for teachers

NAHT Cymru ballot result comes a day after teacher-members of the NEU called off their strike action over pay by voting to accept latest offer from Welsh government

Education and workforce experts warn rising costs have ‘watered down’ the competitiveness of £30k starting salary for teachers since announced in 2019

Three-quarters of exam officers concerned schools won’t have enough competent, fully trained invigilators for summer exams

Westminster committee calls for competitive teacher pay among raft of measures to widen diversity and inclusion in Stem education

73 per cent of voting NEU Cymru members voted to accept the offer worth 11.8 per cent over two years – plus a 1.5 per cent non-consolidated rise this year

This week’s essential news and analysis includes calls for Ofsted to halt inspections, new research uncovering the shocking scale of schools’ teacher recruitment problems and a warning of a behaviour ‘crisis’

Former schools minister says ‘burden’ of supporting pupil health problems shouldn’t be falling on teachers or leaders