Press releases

It is with a great sense of regret that the NEU has given the Secretary of State for Education notice of the fact the NEU will be re balloting members for further strike action.

Education unions to announce they will co-ordinate industrial action going forward.

Government funding plans for 2022/23 to 2024/25 leave schools more or less exactly where they started.

The Sutton Trust report highlights the dire situation schools and colleges find themselves in due to decades of Government underfunding.

This statement is a necessary recognition of the urgent need for a better approach to school inspection.

NEU members in sixth form colleges have voted overwhelmingly in a re-ballot to take industrial action to win an acceptable fully funded pay rise for 2022/23. This result once again demonstrates the resolve of NEU members to win a fair pay rise.

NEU Cymru welcomes increase in support payment to FE students. This increase is a step in the right direction for the Welsh Government.

The Prime Minister’s ambition will be thwarted, though, unless he faces up to the reality of the state of education in England.

NEU Northern Ireland announces strike on 26 April.

It is disappointing but also telling that the Department for Education has kept the results of this survey under wraps for so long.

The government must do more to strengthen the rights of pregnant women, bereaved parents, new mothers and women returning to work.

NEU will continue the robust and sustained national campaign to defend independent members in the face of a relentless attack on their pensions and contractual rights.