General
Friday
22nd Jul 2022
Teacher recruitment: Why ‘nothing is going to save us’
How much worse could the teacher recruitment problems possibly get? Matilda Martin digs into the latest ITT data to reveal the outlook for September and beyond
DfE ‘has put schools on the brink of a full-blown funding crisis’
Five education unions issue a joint statement condemning the government’s handling of teacher pay rises for 2022-23
Thursday
21st Jul 2022
Looking back at slavery link is helping our school move forward
A school whose name connects it to the slave trade has a duty to confront its past, says headteacher Melvyn Roffe
Welsh teacher pay to rise by 5% across the board this year
A further rise of 3.5% is planned for next year, but teaching unions react angrily
Why - and how - you should plan for positive behaviour
Teachers should spend just as much time planning for behaviour as they do on the curriculum, headteacher Sam Strickland tells Tes
‘Unfunded’ teacher pay rise will put schools in deficit, warn leaders
Experienced teachers will be given a 5 per cent pay increase in September – but this is higher than many school leaders had budgeted for
Exclusion charter could expose pupils to ‘harassment’, says behaviour tsar
Southwark Council has encouraged teachers to take a ‘trauma-informed’ approach to pupil behaviour, but Tom Bennett has criticised the policy
Teacher pay: too little for staff, too much for schools
Jack Worth from the NFER explains why the rise in salaries – despite being the biggest increase in years – has worked out badly for both staff and schools, and why fixing this should be an urgent job for the next prime minister
Wednesday
20th Jul 2022
School holiday pay ruling could affect thousands of staff
Case could ‘open floodgates’ for term-time workers to demand more holiday pay from schools, say lawyers
Teacher pay: threat of strikes across the UK
‘A perfect storm’ of simultaneous strike action across the four UK nations is brewing over teacher pay, warns Scottish teaching union
Nick Weller named new CEO at Academy Transformation Trust
Luke Sparkes will take over as new chief executive of Dixons having helped the trust establish new free schools
Teacher pay 2022-23: what the salary rises mean for you
Tes breaks down the different teacher pay increases announced by the government yesterday – and why they have already proved so controversial