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
4th Nov 2022
Need to know: Pay deal accepted, teacher strikes and robot marking
Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most-read news and features articles this week includes school support staff accepting their pay offer, what teacher strikes would mean this winter and the rise of machines that can do your marking
What will teacher strikes look like?
With teachers and school leaders being balloted on strikes over pay, what form could this industrial action take? What might it achieve? And how can heads prepare?
Exclusive: Special schools warn over ‘critical’ support staff cuts
Leaders fear that squeezed budgets could lead to staff cuts that impact on the safety of pupils or employees
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Friday
28th Oct 2022
‘Urgent’ action needed to stop teachers quitting in ‘droves’, Keegan told
Writing to the new education secretary today, the biggest teaching union warns that there are ‘many challenges’ that ‘threaten the quality of provision for our young people’
Need to know: Gillian Keegan, Gibb’s return and falling birth rates
Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ must-read news and features articles from this week includes reaction to the appointment of a new education secretary; the return of Nick Gibb to the DfE; and why the falling birth rate is a looming crisis for schools
Revealed: Soaring teacher vacancies impact on schools
Exclusive: Leaders warn that the recruitment situation is ‘dire’ after a 91¶¶Òõ investigation reveals that teacher vacancies are up by as much as 67 per cent in some subjects
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