Thursday
Welsh teacher pay to rise by 5% across the board this year
A further rise of 3.5% is planned for next year, but teaching unions react angrily
‘Unfunded’ teacher pay rise will put schools in deficit, warn leaders
Experienced teachers will be given a 5 per cent pay increase in September – but this is higher than many school leaders had budgeted for
Teacher pay: too little for staff, too much for schools
Jack Worth from the NFER explains why the rise in salaries – despite being the biggest increase in years – has worked out badly for both staff and schools, and why fixing this should be an urgent job for the next prime minister
Wednesday
School holiday pay ruling could affect thousands of staff
Case could ‘open floodgates’ for term-time workers to demand more holiday pay from schools, say lawyers
Teacher pay: threat of strikes across the UK
‘A perfect storm’ of simultaneous strike action across the four UK nations is brewing over teacher pay, warns Scottish teaching union
Teacher pay 2022-23: what the salary rises mean for you
91¶¶Òõ breaks down the different teacher pay increases announced by the government yesterday – and why they have already proved so controversial
Tuesday
Threat of heads’ industrial action over ‘inadequate’ pay award
Headteacher union leaders also warn that the lack of funding for the teacher pay rises could lead to schools making redundancies
Experienced teacher pay to rise by 5%
Announcement comes after the teachers’ pay review body recommended a higher pay rise than the DfE had originally proposed
Friday
Need to know: Ofsted changes, TAs under fire and behaviour
Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including Ofsted inspection changes, an attack on teaching assistants and new behaviour guidance
Schools relax uniform rules to prepare for heatwave
The Met Office has issued an extreme ‘amber’ warning for heat on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
First week of term ‘critical’ for attendance, says commissioner
Dame Rachel de Souza has said the return to school in September is ‘critical’ for ‘getting pupils into school and settled into the school routine’
School chain ups support staff salaries amid pay ‘arms race’
Exclusive: Leading head warns that schools need to raise pay of support staff to compete with other sectors amid the cost-of-living crisis
