Pay & Conditions
The latest news and analysis on teacher pay and school staff working conditions, including pay rise negotiations, pay scales, pensions and more
Wednesday
3rd Apr 2024
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
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’
Friday
29th Mar 2024
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
Thursday
28th Mar 2024
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
‘Frustration’ at performance pay changes no-show
The DfE said in January it aimed to give schools ‘sufficient notice to prepare during the summer for September 2024 implementation’
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What’s it really like to join a MAT?
Teachers all over the country are being told their school will join a multi-academy trust. But what is the experience like for staff? Tes asked frontline teachers and those in SLT for their stories – warts and all
Tuesday
26th Mar 2024
Exclusive: Why teacher numbers in Scotland are falling
Cuts to attainment gap funding, ‘significant’ challenges filling secondary posts and high probationer dropout rates – councils tell government the reasons behind the drop in teacher numbers
Teacher pay falls by more than public sector as a whole
IFS says cuts to pay of higher earners in the public sector has contributed to recruitment and retention problems