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🗞️Totally bonkers to see a story broken by me (!) splash the front pages this morning
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Matilda Martin
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Matilda Martin
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Reporter @politicshome and House magazine covering education+more [email protected]
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- 🚨BREAKING: Teachers will strike from 1 February after @NEUnion members vote for strike action in England over pay 90.44% voted YES on a turnout of 53.27%.
- 💥TEACHER STRIKES: @NEUnion boss Kevin Courtney says the union has gained 32,000 members since last Monday when the union announced its strike dates & these are mostly new teacher members. This figure means far more teachers could be walking out next Wednesday than anticipated
- 👑The Department for Education will spend more than £350,000 on flower seeds to help primary schools mark the coronation The announcement comes in the same week that schools faced their 6th day of strike action by members of @NEUnion over teacher pay
- Breaking🚨 The government has recruited just HALF of the secondary teacher trainees it needed this year according to Department for Education data This is even worse than last year when 57% of the target needed were recruited
- BREAKING🚨 Teachers in England’s biggest teaching union @NEUnion have voted in support of strike action in an indicative ballot over pay & school funding Yes to action: 90.3% Turnout: 50.3%
- NEW: The teaching union @NEUnion which is calling members out on strike across England tomorrow has had 40,000 new sign-ups to the union since the teacher strikes were announced a fortnight ago. The union says the new members are mostly teachers.
- 🚨BREAKING🚨 Teachers in @NASUWT teaching union in England have voted for industrial action over pay, workload and working time -88.5% of eligible members voted to support strike action -94.3% voting in support of action short of strike action *overall turnout of 51.9%
- School workforce data is out🚨 🔺Number of teachers leaving 1 year after qualifying in 2021 increased to 12.8% (up from 12.5% in 2020) 🔺Classroom teacher vacancies 2120 (up from 1368 in 21/22) 🔺Teacher sickness absences above pre-pandemic levels 67.5% in 21/22 (54.1% 18/19)
- 🚨BREAKING High Court rules that government change in the law that allowed agency workers to cover for striking workers (including teachers) was unlawful
- 📉Applications to teacher training are plummeting & experts say we have no chance of reaching this year's targets. But the impact of missed targets over the last decade is already beginning to take its toll on schools. Here’s everything you need to know 👇
- 🚨@NEUnion has announced the dates for the re-ballot of its teacher members to extend the legal mandate for strike action into next year. The ballot will open on 15 May 2023 and close on 28 July 2023. All 4 unions are expected to ballot members this term over strike action
- Schools will be relieved to hear that they will be fully reimbursed for the rise in employer NIC announced in the Budget after experts said it could cost schools £200m School leaders were told the rise would be fully funded in a briefing last night
- Teachers on #teacherstrike and supporters have congregated for a rally in Trafalgar Square alongside @TheBMA and @pcs_union @NEUnion Strikers will be hearing from @MaryBoustedNEU @cyclingkev and GS of @NAHTnews @PaulWhiteman6
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