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Confirmed: 5.5% pay rise for new starters and 2.75% increase for all other teachers

The government has confirmed today that starting salaries for new teachers will rise by 5.5 per cent next year,...

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Teachers to get 3.1% pay rise, chancellor confirms

Teachers will get a 3.1 per cent pay rise, it has been announced today. The rise is mostly expected...

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NTP won’t be fully operational until Spring, plus 4 more catch-up funding details

The government’s £350 million national tutoring programme won’t fully “ramp up” until the spring term, with schools also not...

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Teach First to target axed trainees for new catch-up mentor roles

Teach First will attempt to recruit the trainees it dropped earlier this year to become mentors under the national...

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Schools’ tutoring scheme fund raided to pay for new £96m college catch-up

A scheme being designed to provide extra tuition for disadvantaged school pupils has been slashed by almost £100 million...

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Roll-out of ‘hard’ national funding formula delayed … again

The roll-out of a “hard” national funding formula has been delayed for at least another year – meaning schools...

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‘Badly targeted’ £80 per-pupil catch-up cash ‘unlikely’ to stop learning gap widening

The government’s £650m catch-up cash is “badly targeted” and “unlikely to prevent a widening” of the learning gap between...

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Grading system risks ‘inaccuracy and bias’ against disadvantaged pupils, MPs warn

Pupils are at risk of missing out on the results they deserve because of “inaccuracy and bias” in this...

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5 ways MPs believe this year’s grading system can be made fairer for pupils

The education select committee has published a new report on this year’s grading system, titled ‘Getting the grades they’ve...

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