The views of education staff and parents have been made clear in More Than a Score’s research. Engagement with, and excitement about learning is not well served by SATs preparation or the SATs pressure.
The State of Education survey gauges the views of working teacher, support staff and school leader NEU members in England and Wales.
Daniel Kebede elected General Secretary of NEU from 1 September
It is disappointing but also telling that the Department for Education has kept the results of this survey under wraps for so long.
This statement is a necessary recognition of the urgent need for a better approach to school inspection.
The Sutton Trust report highlights the dire situation schools and colleges find themselves in due to decades of Government underfunding.
Government funding plans for 2022/23 to 2024/25 leave schools more or less exactly where they started.
Gillian Keegan needs to come forward with a better pay and funding offer if she is to avert further strikes.
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.
Education unions to announce they will co-ordinate industrial action going forward.
Jane Perryman, Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL, explains why only an alternative system to Ofsted can provide the support schools deserve.
Chris Dutton’s experience as a school leader during the pandemic shows that now is the time for a new inspection framework.
