The UK statistics watchdog responds to both DfE and NEU over row over affordability of teacher pay offer
Last year, the STRB recommended a pay rise of 6.5 per cent for teachers after several months of strike action. This was accepted by the government. The ASCL also balloted for strike action during summer 2023 for the first time, but this was halted when members voted to accept the 6.5 pe...
But the difficulty is not just recruiting teachers but keeping them in the classroom. Sometrainees drop out and others decide not to become teachers. Recently in some countries, kine the UK, there has also been an unprecedented rise in newly qualified teachers leaving the profession within the ...
Our book built upon theFlip the Systembooks that came before ours(from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK) and sought to value and promote adiverse range of voicesin education talking about what matters (or what should matter), over what works. We argued for the humanising of educational ...
The leader of the UK's largest teaching union has refused to rule out fresh strikes which disrupt exams after recommending that members reject an "insulting" pay rise. Thegovernment has offered teachersin Englanda £1,000 extra cash payment this year and an average 4.5% incre...
This is for Jumeirah Model School - an apparently real UAE Ministry of Education public school, that curiously offers the UK curriculum and suggests that it has been inspected by the KHDA (which only inspects private schools). Their website appears to be genuine, but as usual the tell-tale...
Not all of them visit Floridian beaches, but it stands to reason that the population rise alone will result in more humans per beach.This NYT headline said in 1984, 27 million Americans travelled abroad, a new record at the time. By 2014 that number was 68 million, and by 2023 it was...
Hurricane Lee aftermath to hit UK Who killed Jill Dando? Her brother's theory Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, said: "Our dispute with government this year was about more than money. It was also about intolerable workload and inspection p...
However, with experienced teachers’ pay proposed to rise by 3 per cent, the government’s overall pay proposals for 2023-24 only match the expected growth rate in UK average earnings next year of 3.5 per cent. The teacher pay award would need to exceed outside earnings if it was goin...
Big rise in academy trusts with in-year deficits Fewer multi-academy trusts are planning to grow because of worsening finances in the sector, according to the Kreston UK Academies Benchmark Report 2024. Academy trust GAG pooling could triple, research shows The proportion of multi-acad...