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Statistics watchdog queries ‘transparency’ of Government’s academies document

The statistics watchdog has written to the Government over the “transparency” of its document setting out plans for a full academisation by 2030. Ed Humpherson, director general for regulation at the Office for Statistics Regulation, wrote to the ...

18 May 2022 at 13:55

Teachers urge action on class sizes as three-quarters say numbers have gone up

Teachers have voted for the Government to set maximum limits on class sizes, as most say the issue is having a negative impact on their pupils’ progress. A survey by the NASUWT teaching union, ahead of its annual conference in Birmingham, found ...

17 Apr 2022 at 16:25

Teachers to debate class size as three quarters say numbers have gone up

Teachers are set to debate whether the Government should set maximum limits on class sizes as most say this is having a negative impact on their pupils’ progress. A survey by the Nasuwt teaching union ahead of its annual conference in ...

17 Apr 2022 at 01:25

Teachers condemn ‘offensive’ and ‘inaccurate’ Fabricant comments

Teachers’ leaders have condemned comments from an MP suggesting that they had a “quiet drink” in the staffroom after a long day, as he defended the Prime Minister over partygate. On Tuesday, Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant told BBC ...

13 Apr 2022 at 12:25

Teachers call for ban on conversion therapy for trans pupils

Teachers have called for the Government ban on conversion therapy to apply to all LGBT people, including those who are trans. At the annual National Education Union conference in Bournemouth on Thursday, teachers raised concerns ...

14 Apr 2022 at 11:55

Government statistics on academies under scrutiny

Government statistics on the effectiveness of academy trusts are under scrutiny from the UK Statistics Authority. On Thursday, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, told an annual conference ...

14 Apr 2022 at 16:25

Teachers’ leaders call for Government to repair ‘damage’ to pay

Teachers’ leaders have called on the Government to give teachers a pay rise this year, to “urgently repair the damage” to school staff salaries. In a joint statement from unions representing almost all headteachers and ...

04 Mar 2022 at 16:25

Teachers’ leaders condemn ‘headlong rush’ to live with Covid

Teachers’ leaders have criticised the Prime Minister’s announcement on “living with Covid” in England for its lack of detailed guidance for schools, with the plans described as more of a “headlong rush” out of ...

21 Feb 2022 at 18:55

Anti-racism groups condemn ‘disturbing’ school impartiality guidance

Anti-racism campaigners have criticised new Government guidance on political impartiality in the classroom as “disturbing”, while teachers’ leaders have said it will stop pupils from engaging with challenging ...

18 Feb 2022 at 12:55

Ofsted is ‘failed project’ – union chief

The president of the National Education Union has said that Ofsted “is and always has been a failed project” and was “absent without leave during the pandemic”. Speaking at the NEU’s annual conference in ...

11 Apr 2022 at 11:25

Shadow education secretary heckled by teachers over Ofsted remarks

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson was heckled by teachers when she said it was time for the schools inspectorate Ofsted to “turn a corner”. Speaking at the National Education Union’s annual ...

12 Apr 2022 at 15:25

Teachers criticise ‘badly flawed’ evidence for making all schools academies

Teachers’ leaders have questioned “badly flawed” Government evidence over its aims for all schools to join multi-academy trusts by 2030. In the Schools White Paper, published on Monday, Education ...

31 Mar 2022 at 01:25

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