This article by Helena Gillespie, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of East Anglia, analyses the underlying reasons for the teachers’ pay claim and strikes, arguing that it’s not just about pay, but a whole host of issues including wokrload, the impact of government policy on education, mental health and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. You can read it on The Conversation website here.
In the meantime, the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said she is willing to enter “formal talks” on pay, conditions and reform if next week’s planned teachers’ strike is called off, as reported here in Schools Week. The National Education Union has said it is “prepared to recommend a pause” to next week’s strikes to its executive if “substantive progress” is made in further talks this week.
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