Campaigns

Together, we want to shape the future of education for the benefit of teachers, support staff, leaders and pupils.

Join us in campaigning for education

There is a crisis in education. Funding cuts are hitting schools, workload is at a record high and the assessment and accountability system is broken, driving excessive workloads. Add this to years of real terms pay cuts and it is no wonder there is a recruitment and retention crisis.

Unprecedented numbers of members  joined the NEU as the result of our successful pay campaign and we know from our new member survey that the majority have joined because they want to make their voices heard. The NEU is run by its members for its members and there are lots of ways you can get involved. 

Pay campaign

The NEU is balloting teachers in state-funded schools for a fully-funded, significantly above-inflation pay rise.

Abolish Ofsted

Ofsted causes more harm than good and we need urgent and fundamental reform.

Assessment campaign

We need reform of our assessment and exams systems to make them fit for the future.

Child poverty

The NEU’s No Child Left Behind campaign is fighting to break down the barriers poverty puts up around education.

Stop school cuts

Schools are still in the midst of a funding crisis. After 14 years of austerity, there are no more efficiencies to be made in school budgets.

Other campaign issues

Save maintained nursery schools

Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are under threat of closure due to chronic underfunding by the Government.

Protecting independent school teachers' pensions

We will support members opposing any proposal to remove teachers’ membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) or enforce pay cuts to pay for the pension.

Campaigning against academisation

The NEU is opposed to the academisation of our schools, whether through forced or voluntary conversion.