Unions

Schools must not be left with the ‘policing burden’ around social media, says school leaders’ union as it demands that tech companies are held to account

After a promising start to relations between the Labour government and the education unions, tensions have started to rise. Will an unfunded pay award be the tipping point for another series of strikes?

Heads’ unions hope plans to make vaping illegal anywhere on site will help settings to reinforce existing school rules

Responding to the government’s consultation on its SEND reform plans, sector leaders also flag fears about funding and the workload implications

The union’s general secretary Daniel Kebede hits back after education secretary calls ballot threat ‘massively premature’

As headship aspiration reaches a record low, Tes explores what’s deterring people from taking the top job

Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted inspects them, with sector leaders warning this is a ‘recipe for heightening stress’

Heads vote for union to consider all steps up to and including industrial action over any below-inflation three-year pay deal

High-stakes accountability ‘just doesn’t work’, says Sinéad Mc Brearty, who chairs the NAHT advisory panel on the Ofsted framework

The rising costs that schools are facing could undermine the government’s White Paper plans, the NAHT’s general secretary tells the union’s annual conference

Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. Here, education leaders tell Tes what they think is behind the contrasting trends

Dave Woods will also tell the union’s annual conference that education staff are now ‘frontline fighters’ against ‘dark forces of hate’