Category: Teachers’ workload

Teachers regularly helping pupils in distress in attempt to fill NHS funding gap

Three in four teachers put a pupil’s psychological needs before teaching at least once a week, UK survey revealsTeachers are picking up the pieces of the deepening crisis in children and young people’s mental health,...

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School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says

Nuffield Foundation to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of calendar ‘in place since Victorian times’England should ditch its school calendar “stuck in place since Victorian...

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Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited

Figures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retentionOnly half of the required number of trainee secondary school teachers in England have been recruited as the academic year...

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Opposition grows among teachers to 6.5% pay offer in England

Union members are concerned about funding for the below-inflation increase and the lack of a long-term agreementConcerns over how the rise promised to teachers in England will be funded, and dismay at the lack of a long-term...

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‘Desperate and angry’ UK headteachers ready to join strikes in autumn

Unions ballot members about coordinated action that will lead to many more school closures in EnglandHeads of schools are likely to join teachers in striking in the new academic year, according to the union that represents them...

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Low pay ‘forcing teaching assistants out of UK classrooms’

Three quarters say they feel undervalued and are thinking about quitting, charity warns Schools will undergo a “crisis of support” without urgent action to improve pay and training for teaching assistants, a charity...

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