Workforce

Offering leadership training is a great way to upskill staff and future-proof your need for talent – but how do you know if it’s having an impact? Jo Facer offers some advice

School leaders’ union warns unions will have no choice but to take industrial action if government fails to remedy ‘neglect and underinvestment’

Government plan to impose minimum service levels during teacher strikes will ‘add to the increasing unpopularity of teaching’, unions warn

Tes’ education news round-up this week includes more schools in deficit as a result of rising costs, new guidance on technology and schools’ support pact for Ofsted inspections

Next government will ‘bake in disadvantage’ for children before they even start school under current plans, charity warns

But more than one in six teachers would prefer to receive £2,500-worth of CPD rather than a £1,000 pay rise, a survey shows

England’s biggest teaching union will begin an indicative ballot over possible strike action on pay and school funding

The far north-west of Scotland may seem like a rural idyll, but it can be hard to attract teachers away from big population centres to work in the area’s schools

Confederation of School Trusts members have hit out at government proposals over legal and workload concerns

Dixons Academies’ CEO Luke Sparkes explains why the trust is introducing a radical flexible working policy to help tackle teacher workload and boost recruitment and retention

List aimed at cutting teacher workload includes ‘investigating a pupil’s absence’ and ‘producing and collating analyses of attendance figures’

The DfE’s Workload Reduction Taskforce has recommended a list of tasks teachers should not have to do – but it is very similar to a list created 10 years ago