Education
Tens of thousands of teachers sign up to union in last fortnight to join walkout
Government should be ‘worried’ about influx of members ahead of walkouts, union boss says
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Teachers’ strikes to go ahead as education minister accused of ‘squandering opportunity’ to avoid action
Teachers will join train drivers, civil servants, university lecturers, bus drivers and security guards who are walking out on Wednesday
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More teachers to strike next month as another union joins walkout
NASUWT boss calls for ‘substantially improved pay offer’ to end dispute
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Ofsted downgrades more than 80% of outstanding schools inspected last year
Some of the schools had not been inspected for 13 years due to an exemption
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Most schools facing ‘unavoidable’ redundancies due to funding crisis, poll finds
‘Headteachers are having to look at every possibility given the current funding situation,’ school leader says
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One in five girls don’t feel safe in British schools, survey finds
Girlguiding ‘truly shocked’ by poll findings
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Jamie Oliver says ‘children coming to school with empty lunchboxes’ in free meals plea
The Independent and the Food Foundation is calling for free school meals for all children in poverty
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School meals industry ‘on its knees’ faced with shortages and rising costs
Some providers using more processed food and ditching British meat as prices soar, poll finds
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Gordonstoun: The Scottish boarding school that taught King Charles III
Monarch was first in his family to attend senior school instead of being privately tutored
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Schools see a third of pupils absent as children stay at home in potentially-record breaking heatwave
Headteachers are seeing around a third of pupils absent from school as parents choose to keep children home during the hottest days forecast in the UK’s heatwave. A number of schools are teaching remotely on Monday and Tuesday, when the Met Office is forecasting temperatures to soar into the high 30C and potentially even reach […]
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