Workforce
The latest news and analysis on the school workforce in the UK and at international schools, including teacher recruitment, retention and shortage subjects
Friday
15th Mar 2024
Fears that classes could be sent home if Glasgow cuts go ahead
The authority is planning to cut more than 170 teaching posts from August – in ‘many’ primaries, only headteachers will be available to cover staff absence
Teachers’ views on wellbeing revealed in new survey
The latest Tes Schools Wellbeing Report, released this morning, highlights school staff’s opinions on workload, funding and confidence in their roles
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Saturday
9th Mar 2024
Phillipson: More ‘transparency’ needed in regional ‘layer’
The shadow education secretary was speaking at the ASCL conference in Liverpool this morning
Barton: Government must make classrooms ‘fit for learning’
Geoff Barton uses last speech as ASCL leader to highlight the ‘shocking’ state of school buildings, along with the need for a curriculum review and better funding
Friday
8th Mar 2024
Leaders ‘queasy’ about relying on international recruitment
Recruiting teachers from other countries that need them, ‘morally’ doesn’t ‘feel like the right thing for us to be doing’, says ASCL general secretary
Politicians ‘constantly running down schools’ undermines attendance drive
Some politicians and commentators are ‘far too quick to take potshots at schools’, ASCL’s president John Camp will warn today
Wednesday
6th Mar 2024
Budget 2024: £105m for 15 new special free schools
Here’s everything schools need to know about today’s Budget announcement
Parental complaints: DfE told urgent change needed to help schools
The volume of complaints is ‘not sustainable’ and ‘will have an impact on our ability to retain our leaders’, warns CST chief Leora Cruddas
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Revealed: 8 in 10 school leaders see rise in vexatious complaints
Tes investigation uncovers a ‘Wild West’ parent complaints system pushing schools with stretched resources and stressed staff to the brink
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