Schools

GMB union ballots school support staff over £1,925 pay rise

Members polled over a pay deal worth 10.5% for the lowest-paid school staff and 4% for some higher earners

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Government promise to end 15-year school cash squeeze ‘won’t be met’

The IFS think tank says per-pupil funding will actually be 3 per cent lower in real terms by 2024-25

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

Teacher pay rise proposals will ‘exacerbate supply challenges’

The NFER backs higher pay rises, bursaries and bonuses - but secondary teachers should get higher awards than primary...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

NEU threatens strikes if teachers not given inflation-busting pay rise

The teachers' union wants an "undifferentiated" pay rise for all teachers, as inflation soars to 9.1 per cent

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Schools

£3k teachers retention bonuses: How they will work

Up to 7,000 early-career computing, maths, physics and chemistry teachers in 2,500 schools will receive retention bonuses

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Teacher departures down 17% during pandemic, plus 4 more school workforce findings

Teaching’s increasingly young and diverse workforce continued to grow last year as staff departures slumped during Covid, new figures...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Academy trusts with multiple staff on £100k+ told to justify pay

The government has written to all multi-academy trusts that are paying a salary of £100,000 to £150,000 to multiple...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Teachers are ‘happy with pay’ despite real-terms drop

Most teachers remain happy with their income, despite a real-terms drop in pay and longer working hours in recent...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson