Tag: Teachers
Teachers will rally against Labour over pay, says NEU leader
Hazel ShearingReporting fromNEU conference in HarrogateGetty ImagesDaniel Kebede addressed NEU members on the last day of their conference in Harrogat [...]
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Cancel Grants to Teachers
In boilerplate letters, the administration told recipients that the grants supported diversity efforts and were wasteful.
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Harris Rallies Teachers Union Members
“We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books,” she told the crowd of 3,500 people at the convention of the American Federation of Teach [...]
Bridget Phillipson begins push to recruit 6,500 new teachers
The new education secretary has begun work to recruit 6,500 teachers, the Department for Education (DfE) said. Bridget Phillipson will write to "all [...]
Biden Cancels Speech to Teachers After Union’s Staff Strikes
Employees of the National Education Association picketed the site of the group’s annual convention after a walkout over issues including overtime pay. [...]
Jill Biden Hosts Teachers at Awards Dinner, With a Bit of Pomp
The first lady commended the winner of the National Teacher of the Year award during an event evoking formal state dinners.
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Tennessee Passes Bill to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Handguns
The move came about a year after the state’s deadliest school shooting and was opposed by some of the families whose children survived the attack.
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‘Teachers want their status restored’ – Bridget Phillipson
Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson says retaining more teachers is the best recruitment strategy.Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg Ms P [...]
Labour plan to offer teachers £2,400 to stop them quitting
The plans to improve retention rates, announced by Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson on Sunday, would see new incentive payments [...]
Finance delays for divorcing teachers and NHS staff as pensions recalculated
Both current and retired staff face "a severe and drastic impact" from the delays, say solicitors.
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Teachers and nurses dragged into higher taxes, warns think tank
The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns a freeze on income tax thresholds will hit middle earners.
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Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards
From the outside, the prison complex in Florence, Colo., is a forbidding citadel of steel, concrete and coiled barbed wire, housing some of the most n [...]
Head teachers in England reject pay offer
The National Association of Head Teachers is considering balloting members again over strike action.
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More strikes planned as teachers reject pay offer
Members of the National Education Union in England will strike on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May.
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Teachers working 12-hour days, leaked report says
Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, accused ministers of withholding important information from the school teachers [...]