Teacher pay

STRB report: 6.5% teacher pay rise, but DfE will only fund 3%

Unions will recommend their members accept ‘properly funded’ pay deal

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Use of agency workers to cover strikes quashed in High Court

Government’s approach found to be ‘so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational’

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SATs

DfE won’t publish primary progress data in 2024 or 2025

Lack of ‘robust alternative baseline’ following Covid SATs cancellations, government concludes

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Ofsted has ‘no serious concerns’ about Rye College after gender row

Urgent inspection found gender dispute incident did ‘not reflect’ pupils’ normal experiences

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Teacher training framework changes will only be ‘moderate’, DfE says

It follows a review of the evidence underpinning the initial teacher training and early career frameworks

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Teacher strikes

NASUWT members vote for industrial action

‘Continuous action’ short of strikes from September, with potential for co-ordinated industrial action with other unions in Autumn

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth


Schools

NFER: Extend ‘levelling-up’ retention payments to all deprived schools

Report also warns 6.5% pay rise won’t solve teacher recruitment and retention woes on its own

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Coroner considering ‘enhanced’ inquest into Ruth Perry death

Decision due in August on whether to hold article 2 inquest – for cases where the state has ‘failed…

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Schools

Consider ‘golden handcuff’ bursaries, major ITT providers say

Six key findings from the education committee hearing on recruitment and retention crisis

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

What’s new in the DfE’s expanded reading framework?

Updated guidelines suggest in-class ‘influencers’ could get more children reading

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

‘Beyond belief’: Heads have issues AGAIN accessing SATs results

Leaders met with error messages on Primary Assessment Gateway – despite outsourcer Capita being ‘confident’ service would be better

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SATs

Key stage 2 SATs: Overall results same as 2022, but reading falls

59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker