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Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started

The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Why is the Government Giving Teachers a Pay Rise?

This week the government announced a pay rise for a range of public sector workers, including teachers. Although presented as a thank you gift for teachers’ hard work during the pandemic, the government’s pay strategy has other motivations, argues James McAsh.

Opinion: Teachers Are Rediscovering Their Collective Power

Across the country, in meetings ranging from dozens to thousands, teachers and teaching assistants are standing up for safety and learning that there is power in a union, writes primary school teacher James McAsh.

Why Are Teachers Taking Action Against SATs?

While bigots across the land are seething that primary pupils are taught the existence of LGBT people, the National Education Union is taking on the real menace in the classroom: SATs. James McAsh explains why.