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Unions threaten results day disruption as AQA staff plan three-day strike

Some AQA staff will strike over pay later this month, but the exam board said claims of results day disruption are ‘wrong’

Schools told to raid own coffers to get pupils to exams during rail strike

DfE says schools are ‘best placed to prioritise their spending to support their pupils and students’ during biggest rail strike in 30 years

NEU conference votes to survey members on teacher pay strike action

The country’s largest education union will survey its members to “build towards a ballot for national strike action” if its pay demands are not met. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced last year that school staff earning over £24,000 a year won’t receive a pay rise in 2021, while those earning below the threshold will receive a […]

Senior staff ‘ignored our Covid fears’, say striking teachers

Teachers at a Wirral primary school are set to go on strike after claiming that senior staff repeatedly ignored health and safety concerns surrounding Covid-19. Staff at Kingsway Primary School will walk out for six days across December and January in what is believed to be the first school industrial action linked to the virus. […]

A NEU dawn: NUT and ATL hold final conferences

The National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers held their last conferences as separate unions over the Easter break. The two sections will meet as one amalgamated National Education Union next year. Schools Week’s political editor Freddie Whittaker attended so you didn’t have to. 1. Ofsted ‘overstepped the mark’ during hijab row […]