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‘Wholly inadequate’ pay offer has ‘angered our members and forced this move towards strike action’, says EIS union

Sector leaders call for more investment in teachers of the deaf, as research finds nearly one in four councils have no specialist teaching units

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the government’s stance on teacher pay, a strike ultimatum and the education secretary’s controversial speech

Industrial action is moving closer in all parts of the UK, with Northern Ireland’s heads ‘caught in a vicious circle’ over teacher pay

Largest teaching union writes to education secretary to warn over a strike ballot unless he acts on unfunded teacher and school staff pay by the end of next week

Government accused of ‘botching’ pay talks as unions give formal notice to councils of their plans to ballot members

Schools minister Jonathan Gullis defends pay deal, saying he is committed to £30,000 a year starting salary for teachers

Scottish headteachers earn less than their English counterparts, on average – particularly at secondary school, new OECD figures show

Heads, academies and teacher leaders urge ministers to prioritise and fund work to improve inclusion in schools ‘if it is serious about recruitment and retention’

NASUWT Cymru says it will ballot members for industrial action unless government makes a 12% offer

NASUWT is seeking an ‘immediate programme of pay restoration’, starting with a pay award of at least 12 per cent

A proposal to offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools may sound like an easy policy win but, as this primary head outlines, the devil is in the details