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Teaching unions welcome the decision to close UK schools

By Union Web
March 18, 2020
Teaching unions have welcomed the decision to close schools, but have called on the government to make sure there is adequate provision for children on free school meals. ...
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Teaching union send letter to Boris Johnson to explain decision not to shut schools

By Union Web
March 16, 2020
The National Education Union (NEU) has written to the prime minister asking for his reasons for keeping UK schools open when other countries are closing schools due to ...
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What the unions made of this week’s Budget

By Union Web
March 12, 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed his first Budget this week – amid a backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, issues concerning Statutory Sick Pay, an interest rate drop and low ...
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Teaching unions say coronavirus has not affected their conference plans yet, but hand-washing will be encouraged

By Union Web
March 11, 2020
Four main teaching unions – including the NEU and NASUWT – have said that the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak has not disrupted their national conference plans yet – but ...
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NEU joins demands for social and environmental protection in UK-EU trade talks

By Union Web
March 3, 2020
Europe’s biggest education union has joined various civil groups and organisations to call for a post-Brexit trade deal based on rights, justice and sustainability, and to “defend education ...
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Government plans to tackle mental health crisis in children labelled ‘unambitious’ by NEU

By Union Web
May 9, 2018
National Education Union (NEU) has called the Government’s latest plans to tackle the growing mental health crisis in young people as ‘unambitious’, with MPs also warning the plans ...
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NEU says government has questions to answer over controversial Baseline test of four-year-olds

By Union Web
April 16, 2018
Last week the government announced the preferred supplier of the proposed new Reception Baseline test, but the NEU says questions still remain over the controversial scheme. The Department ...
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NEU criticises government after new report shows number of schools in deficit is increasing

By Union Web
March 19, 2018
The number of state secondary schools in England falling into deficit has nearly trebled in the last four years, new research has shown. Independent think tank the Education ...
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NEU is “opposed” to government’s new times table tests for primary schools

By Union Web
February 14, 2018
Proposals for a new national times tables test were revealed by the Department of Education (DfE) today, and have already been deemed “unnecessary” by teaching union the NEU. ...
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Low apprenticeship take-up figures “very worrying for the government” says the NEU

By Union Web
January 30, 2018
Teaching union responds to new figures that show the level of new apprenticeship starts is down 27% on last year. New figures published by the Department for Education ...
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