Author: Freddie Whittaker

Delegates at the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers have voted to ballot members for a national campaign of strike action over teacher pay it talks with the government fail to make progress. The union is asking for an end to public sector pay limits and the restoration of all real-terms pay losses […]

The National Union of Teachers is taking steps towards regional strikes over school funding in the summer term, based on a pre-existing ballot of its members. Last summer the NUT balloted members on national strike action. The validity of the ballot ends on August 31, ahead of the NUT’s merger with the Association of Teachers […]

Poor management and unreasonable demands from school leaders have prompted around half of young teachers to consider leaving the profession, a survey by the National Union Teachers has found. Of more than 3,000 teachers aged 35 and under who responded to the union’s survey, just 55 per cent said they planned to stay in the […]

A vote on whether to ballot members of the National Union of Teachers for a boycott of primary school tests next year has been postponed after debate overran at the union’s conference. More than a dozen speakers contributed to a heated discussion about primary assessment in Cardiff this morning, calling for an end to the current regime of tests […]

The National Union of Teachers has written to several schools and multi academy trusts running ?’grammar streams’ as it prepares for potential legal action over de facto new selective schools created using admissions loopholes. Ministers are said to be considering ways to open new grammars without the need to overturn the ban on new grammars […]

The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people from “ordinary working class backgrounds”. Schools are still waiting to hear the details of expected government reforms which include the expansion of selective schools in England. But in a speech today at St Mary’s […]

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has voted to explore a boycott of all primary assessment, despite the government’s recent concessions on key stage 1 SATs. Delegates at the union’s conference in Liverpool have today backed a motion calling on the ATL’s executive to “explore a possible boycott of all tests at primary level”, including talks […]

Justine Greening risks squandering the “talents and potential” of children and condemning them to a sense of self “undermined by failure and exclusion” with the expansion of selection in England, Mary Bousted has warned. The general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said although Greening, the education secretary, was “far more competent, far […]