Friday
Strikes: Keegan’s last-ditch plea to keep schools open
The education secretary appeared resigned to teacher strikes going ahead next week as she urged leaders to keep their schools open during the action
Teacher pay must go up if education is a priority, chancellor told
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt highlighted the importance of education in a speech today
Strikes: Heads warn over ‘hardline’ DfE approach
Leaders are weighing up whether they can keep schools open during teacher strikes, telling the DfE it won’t be like the pandemic when staff were keen to help
Teacher strikes: What school leaders need to know
Do schools have to report their strike plans to government? Are support staff taking part? Can heads force staff to cover classes? 91¶¶Òõ answers the 11 burning questions facing school leaders in the run-up to next week’s strikes
Teacher pay: Heads call for 15% ‘uplift’ in ‘last chance’ review
NAHT general secretary says the STRB process has ‘failed’ the education profession
Thursday
DfE to miss teacher pay review deadline
A school leaders’ union will now also be asking for an extension to the deadline
Weekly round-up: the countdown to teacher strikes
Your round-up of 91¶¶Òõ’ must-read news and analysis from the past week features all the build-up to next week’s national teacher strike over pay, Ofsted under fire over its school inspection ratings and insight into the different funding systems used by academy trusts
No resolution found as teacher strikes loom in Wales
The Welsh government and unions met yesterday but no deal was reached – and no further meetings are planned ahead of teacher walkouts next week
DfE school strike data trawl can be ignored, heads told
Leaders advised they have no legal obligation to respond to a government email requesting information about school closures as teachers walk out next week
Wednesday
Teachers in Northern Ireland decide to strike over pay
Teaching unions call for 12 per cent pay award and say Northern Ireland’s Department of Education ‘needs to wake up’
Don’t cover teacher colleagues on strike, TAs told
Support staff should not provide cover supervision for teachers on strike, says union, despite DfE guidance saying this is acceptable
Heads’ union ‘committed to balloting again’ on industrial action
However, NAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said he does not know ‘when that will be’ and the union ‘will wait to see how much progress is made first’
