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Teacher pay rise 2024-25: all you need to know

The government has offered a 5.5 per cent pay rise for teachers from September 2024. What will happen next?

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Half of students ‘disadvantaged’ on work experience

Many state school students don't have access to work experience – and this is a barrier to entry into top universities, report warns

Centre of Teaching Excellence ‘should be renamed’

In response to the SNP government's plan for a Centre of Teaching Excellence, secondary heads warn ‘excellence’ is ‘a tarnished word’ in Scottish education

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

Tes 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'