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Maths and English literature both saw a bigger increase in top A-level grades this year than the marginal rise recorded across all subjects

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Teachers to earn below minimum wage for exam work

Scottish government document states £400 payment will be ‘less than minimal wage’ for some teachers

Teachers’ key support during Covid? Their colleagues

Colleagues were the most important form of support at the start of the pandemic, survey finds

GCSES: Exam system stops parents ‘bullying’ teachers

Teachers reject calls to permanently replace exams with teacher assessment over fears it could increase workload and lead to bullying  

Regulate ‘excessive’ MAT leader pay, say teachers

NASUWT members back campaign for more scrutiny of academy trust finances

Fears long Covid is a ‘ticking time-bomb’ for teachers

Teachers who get Covid in school need compensation and better access to ill-health retirement, says NASUWT

‘Mistake’ to relax Covid safety in schools, say teachers

Staff fear relaxation of national lockdown will mean students are less likely to follow Covid safety rules

Vote to exclude for false allegations against teachers

Malicious allegations made by pupils can ‘ruin' teachers' lives and trigger depression and suicide, NASUWT conference told

Female teachers also victims of sexist abuse in schools

Female teachers are subject to 'derogatory' sexist name-calling both in class and online, says NASUWT teachers' union

Arts being cut to allow Covid catch-up, teachers warn

NASUWT votes to continue to challenge schools that remove or reduce pupils’ access to creative and practical subjects

School ‘mocksteds’ adding pressure to teacher workloads

Panic over Ofsted's 'light touch' visits next term are adding yet more stress and work to teachers, conference hears

Teachers ‘denied time off work to get vaccine’

NASUWT contacts education secretary over ‘widespread’ cases of ‘uncaring’ employers denying teachers time off for jab

Four-year plan to tackle learning loss, reports say

Unpublished data set to show more than 200,000 pupils moving into secondary school lack literacy skills, according to reports

Teachers being ‘treated with contempt’ by government

Union leader will accuse the government of 'incompetence', adding that 'schools shouldn’t be left to pick up the pieces left' by the pandemic.

Don’t ‘rush’ to remove pupil face masks, ministers told

Current evidence does 'not justify' a change in policy on face coverings in classrooms for the start of next term, teaching unions tell government

Online teaching: ‘Abusive parent bombing’ warning

More than one in four teachers have been criticised by parents or carers in the past year, finds survey

Covid ‘likely’ leaving some teachers suffering PTSD

Teachers helping pupils and colleagues through Covid-19 bereavement risk 'secondary trauma', union conference warned

Teachers need better pay not ‘praise’, Williamson told

Union leader hits out at remarks by education secretary that teacher training is central to catch-up ‘as if teachers are part of the problem’

‘Teachers can’t compensate for pupil poverty alone’

Schools alone cannot compensate for the “deeply damaging harm” done to pupils by the “cruel” effect of poverty, the shadow education secretary warns

Teachers back campaign to scrap league tables

Teaching union will push for end of use of 'high-stakes' testing and campaign to show adverse impact of league tables

How Covid could help us to tackle child obesity

Covid creates the conditions for councils to restrict students' access to fast food, says teacher Gordon Cairns

Plea to protect ‘brave’ but anxious teachers from Covid

Disabled and elderly teachers and those from BME backgrounds need more protection from Covid in the workplace, says NASUWT union

1 in 10 teachers threatened with violence by pupils

NASUWT data shows teachers also 'taunted' on social media as union votes to support teachers to 'reclaim our classrooms'

One in 50 teachers ‘has self-harmed’ amid Covid stress

'Shocking' data shows 23% of teachers are on medication and 12% have sought counselling to help deal with work stress

‘Stealth’ pupil premium cut now estimated at £133m

Government decision will see as many as 120,000 disadvantaged pupils missing out on funding, says Labour