Press releases

Poverty and disadvantage can have severe impacts on children’s educational experience

These reports show the Goverment has failed to maintain the school estate or improve its resilience. The era of hoping such problems will go away of their own accord is over.

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the latest data from Government on pupils with special educational needs.

This year marks 75 years from when the ‘Windrush’ generation came to the UK after the Second World War, starting from 1948. Nearly 500 passengers were carried on the Empire Windrush from Caribbean countries.

The NEU welcomes this inquiry into Ofsted.  There is overwhelming consensus in the education profession that inspections need to change.

Ofsted recognise the need for change, but these changes don’t address the high stakes pressures that are tied up with a one grade summative judgement.

The NEU has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of our National Executive meeting on 17 June to publish the School Teacher Review Body (STRB) report.

This new report spells out the worrying trends that schools have been seeing since the pandemic. The Government must ensure that funding for the NTP is adequate and long-term, invest in educators.

Education unions to hold joint industrial action campaign meetings in every school in England.

New research shows worrying link between poverty, mental health and GCSE grades.

The National Education Union secures a ground breaking victory to secure improved employment rights for members working as senior examiners in exam boards across the country.

Education unions have written to the Secretary of State for Education calling for the government to formally publish leaked pay recommendations made by the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB).