Author: Freddie Whittaker

The National Education Union will “ramp up” campaigning on school funding and seek to mobilise parents on the campaign trail if there is a general election this year, one of its leaders has said. Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the NEU, told the union’s annual conference in Liverpool this morning that the School […]

The rise of “draconian” and “inhumane” behaviour approaches is damaging the mental health and education of pupils, the National Education Union has said, after its members voted in favour of council oversight of behaviour policies in all schools. At the union’s annual conference in Liverpool this morning, delegates voted to instruct NEU leaders to campaign […]

Staff at the NASUWT teaching union will strike again in a dispute over their pay and pensions after voting to back a second round of industrial action. The GMB union, which represents workers at the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers, says it has secured “overwhelming backing” in an “unprecedented industrial action […]

Two fifths of teachers don’t see themselves remaining in the profession beyond 2024, while almost one in five expect to leave within two years, a new survey of National Education Union members has revealed. The NEU asked more than 8,000 teachers, school leaders and support staff their views on workload, and found that 40 per […]

England’s largest teaching union will lobby the government to make teaching about LGBT+ relationships compulsory in all schools. The National Education Union has today voted to campaign for a strengthening of new government guidance on relationships and sex education to force all primary and secondary schools to teach LGBT+ education. The union will also demand […]

The National Education Union is to ballot its members on a potential SATs boycott next year after delegates at the union’s annual conference voted in favour of the action. Following a heated debate in which different union factions clashed over whether a 2019-20 ballot is achievable within the time available, and after a re-run of […]

The country’s largest education union will officially oppose “any reprisals” against pupils who walk out of school to campaign against climate change. At its annual conference in Liverpool today, the National Education Union voted to “stand in full solidarity” with pupils who strike or protest against climate change, and oppose punishment such as detentions and […]

Almost 100 academies are waiting to be transferred to new sponsors – with some still in limbo well over a year after the process began. In response to a question from Labour, the government said 93 academies are currently going through the rebrokerage process, which is when a school moves from one academy trust to […]