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Teachers ‘treated with contempt’ during Covid, says NASUWT leader Roach

Teachers have been “treated with contempt” by the government during the Covid-19 pandemic, the leader of NASUWT will say...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Improving teacher training ‘central’ to Covid recovery plan, says Williamson

Improving training for teachers throughout their careers will be “central” to the government’s Covid recovery plan, the education secretary...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupil premium change: Labour accuses government of £133m ‘stealth cut’

The government’s pupil premium funding change is a “stealth cut to school budgets at a time when children need...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Williamson first education secretary to address NASUWT conference in five years

Gavin Williamson will address the annual conference of the NASUWT teaching union this weekend, five years after an education...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exams 2020: Education unions call for ‘urgent’ inquiry into grades fiasco

Unions representing hundreds of thousands of school staff have demanded an independent inquiry into the exam grades fiasco. Teaching...

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Coronavirus: ‘Very real risk’ of spike if schools open too early, say teaching unions

The leaders of England’s two largest teaching unions have come together with others from across the UK and Ireland...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Patrick Roach takes over at NASUWT with a plea to ministers

Government must intervene to stop “unacceptable management practices” in schools that are damaging teacher wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Schools need guidance after rise in racist abuse, says union

A teaching union has written to Gavin Williamson to demand guidance for schools on how to tackle racist incidents...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Four in 10 LGBT+ teachers experience homophobia, biphobia or transphobia, warns NASUWT

More than four in ten teachers who identify as LGBT+ have personally experienced homophobia, biphobia or transphobia at work...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter