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Headteachers warn UK facing ‘dangerous’ teacher shortage as recruitment crisis deepens

Employment ‘worst it’s ever been’ as pay and conditions put graduates off profession

The Independent UK

Research finds boys from poorer backgrounds could benefit from having a male teacher

The proportion of secondary school teachers who are male remains at a record low

The Independent UK

Nearly a third of primary schools have no male classroom teachers – study

The proportion of secondary school teachers who are male remains at a record low of 35%, according to a Warwick Business School report.

The Independent UK

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Headteachers in fresh strike threat over school funding and pay in Wales

Members of the NAHT are being re-balloted for industrial action as union warns pay deal agreed to end teachers' strike has not been funded as promised

Wales Online

Some children in care ‘missing from school and becoming invisible’

More than a fifth of school-age unaccompanied children seeking asylum were not in school as of March last year, research shows.

The Independent UK

Pupils in families using food banks during pandemic ‘received lower GCSE grades’

More than a third of young people in families using food banks were not eligible for free school meals, a report suggests.

The Independent UK

Sats reading paper released early after complaints it was too difficult

The exam, which was due to be published on Monday, was made available ahead of time ‘due to public interest in the tests’.

The Independent UK

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Government expands ‘attendance hubs’ programme to get more pupils into school

Schools could be advised to send text messages to parents where children do not attend class as part of the programme.

The Independent UK

Minister to look at SATs paper concerns after pupils left in ‘tears’

Hundreds of parents and teachers complained online that last week’s reading exam was too difficult

The Independent UK

Minister to look at concerns over Sats paper following complaints

Nick Gibb said he does not want the exams which are taken by 10 and 11-year-olds in England to be ‘too hard’.

The Independent UK

UK faces fresh wave of strikes as teachers and senior doctors prepare to ballot for strike action

Members of the Royal College of Nursing, one of the two unions to turn down the recent government pay offer to NHS staff, will gather in Brighton as the long-running dispute continues

The Independent UK

Teacher unions ‘left with no other choice’ to begin new strike votes after rejected pay offer

NAHT and NEU members could take part in co-ordinated industrial action in the autumn

The Independent UK

Ministers braced for fresh industrial unrest as nurses gather in Brighton

Ministers are facing the possibility of fresh industrial unrest, as teachers and senior doctors prepare to ballot for strike action.

The Independent UK

Teacher unions begin new strike votes after rejected pay offer

NAHT and NEU members could take part in co-ordinated industrial action in the autumn.

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Teachers and heads begin strike ballots over mass walkouts this autumn

All the major education unions are threatening to coordinate walkouts in the autumn term if school staff back strike action, in a major escalation of the fraught dispute over teachers' pay

The Guardian - UK

Low pay ‘forcing teaching assistants out of UK classrooms’

Three quarters say they feel undervalued and are thinking about quitting, charity warns

The Independent UK

Schools ‘increasingly struggling to recruit teachers’

Issues over pay were not being addressed, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation said.

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: From classrooms to hospital wards, the workers fighting for more

In today’s newsletter: Nurses, teachers, civil servants, rail workers and more are still locked in a battle for better pay and conditions – how are each faring?

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Daily Mirror

Teachers urged to chip in £1 each to crowdfund legal challenge against Ofsted

A group of school leaders are crowdfunding 'to gather evidence of Ofsted’s unfair practices and their devastating impact on schools' in the wake of the death of headteacher Ruth Perry

The Independent UK

School leaders’ union to ask headteachers to stop working as Ofsted inspectors

It comes after a headteacher took her own life while waiting for an inspection report which downgraded her school.

The Guardian - UK

Sister of Ruth Perry urges headteachers to resist Ofsted ‘culture of fear’

Julia Waters criticises ‘fatally destructive’ inspections and calls on school leaders to refuse to cooperate with watchdog

The Independent UK

Ofsted inspectors should ‘hand in badges’ to support Ruth Perry, sister says

Professor Julia Waters called on the Government and watchdog to take ‘urgent meaningful actions’.

Chronicle Live

Co-ordinated teacher strikes this autumn could affect all state schools in England

All four education unions have announced that they intend to join up for future industrial action - but the Government has criticised the plans as 'unreasonable and disproportionate'

The Independent UK

All state schools in England could be affected by co-ordinated strikes in autumn

Up to 400,000 teachers could walk out if all four education unions successfully ballot members over strikes, a union leader said,

Evening Standard

London parents face co-ordinated teacher strikes in autumn as pay row deepens

Four education unions plan to co-ordinate any possible industrial action moving forward in a long-running dispute over pay

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