91¶¶Òõ

The union is the first to set dates for balloting members as fallout from the teacher pay deal rumbles on

At least eight local authorities have expressed interest in the government pilot to develop council-run MATs

It is no coincidence that teachers are overworked and underpaid – and 80 per cent of them are women, says new EIS general secretary

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week includes what Sunak or Truss would mean for education, pay rises for school support staff and the debate about teaching joined-up writing

Exam board AQA says it has ‘robust’ plans in place to ensure that the strike does not delay next month’s GCSE and A-level results

Heads know their support staff deserve proper pay rises but without new funding to cover the increases, tough decisions lie ahead for schools with large numbers of support staff – with so-called ‘magnet’ schools and special schools being hit the hardest

Job cuts, bigger classes and deficits are among ‘disastrous’ effects of ‘unfunded’ pay rises, warn special school leaders

Schools need more support staff but another ‘unfunded’ pay rise could force heads to make cuts, warns leaders’ union

Union says strike action could hit students’ exam appeals process, while SQA states that results are on track for 9 August

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week includes all the reaction to the teacher pay rises, a big announcement about Sats and Ofsted’s concerns about schools being too focused on exams

How much worse could the teacher recruitment problems possibly get? Matilda Martin digs into the latest ITT data to reveal the outlook for September and beyond

Five education unions issue a joint statement condemning the government’s handling of teacher pay rises for 2022-23