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Most teachers to pay less into their pension under new plans

DfE launches consultation on cutting employee contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme across most salary bands

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Poorer children helped by Sure Start ‘got better GCSEs’

Having access to a Sure Start centre significantly improved the educational achievement of children, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies research

Watch: Teachers’ priorities ahead of a general election

91¶¶Òõ speaks to NEU members to find out the big issues teachers will want to see prioritised by a future government in a likely general election year

Former Ofsted chief to review watchdog’s Ruth Perry response

Dame Christine Gilbert, a former chief inspector, will start the independent review this month

Lib Dems call for creation of national SEND agency

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey launches new plan to end 'postcode lottery' of special needs provision

NEU chief: Labour schools’ promises long way off what’s needed

Daniel Kebede used his first major speech to warn Sir Keir Starmer the union was putting 'any incoming Labour government on notice'

Majority of teachers say learning hit by poor school buildings

Two-thirds of respondents to an NEU survey also said their schools had leaks

Ofsted reform delay ‘risks lives’, warns Ruth Perry’s sister

Professor Julia Waters will tell the NEU conference today of her fear that policymakers are only 'paying lip service' to demands for change at Ofsted

NEU: Teachers reject pre-pay offer strike action

Members of the biggest teachers' union instead vote in favour of a 'snap poll' on the government's forthcoming pay offer

TA support for SEND non-existent, say teachers

The vast majority of teachers need more support inside and outside classrooms for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, an NEU poll shows

NEU: Teachers could strike in September

The leader of the largest teaching union said that strikes were not off the table and could take place later this year

£10k payment for non-UK trainees cut for next year

The international relocation payment for overseas teacher training applicants for physics and languages has been stopped

Warning over ITT dropout rise after subject funding cuts

Universities' Council for the Education of Teachers writes to Gillian Keegan describing the decision to end funding for teacher trainee subject knowledge courses as 'unprecedented'

Education system has had ‘failure baked in’ since Gove

NEU president says teachers' autonomy has been reduced by an education system that stops teachers from being 'the educators they want to be'

4 out of 5 teachers say new inspection system needed

More than half of NEU members warn that Ofsted inspections have a negative impact on their mental health

Union calls for a national teachers’ pay commission

NASUWT says a national commission is needed to restore independence of the pay review process

MAT CEO gets role promoting inclusive education

Jonny Uttley of The Education Alliance will develop policy proposals for the Centre for Young Lives as a visiting fellow

Revealed: What teachers want in election year

Pay, wellbeing and other topics likely to dominate the agenda at the NEU's national conference later this week

Union call for suicide prevention training for leaders

NASUWT warns a mental health crisis among teachers is leading to an increase in suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts

NASUWT votes against moving to a formal strike ballot

78 per cent of members who took part did not support a statutory ballot, NASUWT teaching union announces

Teachers ‘left vulnerable’ by long wait for guidance on restraint

NASUWT teaching union criticises Scottish government for 'complete abdication of responsibility' as long wait for official advice on physical intervention continues

NASUWT: Next government must reverse ‘14 years of underfunding’

'Our profession is in crisis,' new NASUWT president Rashida Din will warn at the union's annual conference today

Nine in 10 teachers back strikes in NEU indicative ballot

NEU teaching union members support striking again over pay and funding in indicative ballot with a 50.3 per cent turnout

NASUWT: Teachers are facing ‘dystopian’ stress levels

The teaching union is campaigning for 'a new deal for teachers' in the run-up to the next general election

Weekly round-up: Teacher pay drop and school moves

This week’s essential education news includes teachers being hit particularly hard by a real-terms drop in pay and thousands of students' 'unexplained' school moves