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Headteachers could ‘boycott Government reading test’, warns union leader

Headteachers could boycott the Government’s controversial new reading test for six-year-olds if it is used “as a stick to beat schools with”, a union leader warned today.




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Union warning on schools reform

A union says a close eye must be kept on how councils use proposals making it easier to intervene in failing schools.
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Union warns over shorter holiday

Members of the National Union of Teachers say they will resist any attempt to shorten the six-week school summer holiday.
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Teachers union urges ‘resistance’ on pay plans

A campaign of “mass resistance” is needed against the Government’s plans for regional pay for public sector workers, teachers heard today. .




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One in three teachers have worked in temperatures over 31C says union

One in three teachers have seen temperatures soar to more than 31C during the period of a survey carried out for the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.




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Strike call from teachers’ union

A teachers’ union conference votes for an escalating campaign of industrial action over “ideologically driven attacks” on state education.
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Teachers union attacks academies strategy

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, warned today that academies could be used to dismantle national pay agreements.




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Teachers’ union threatens strike action over pay and conditions

Lengthy strikes by teachers over pay and working conditions could hit schools across the country this autumn, the leader of one of the largest teaching unions warns today.




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ATL union criticises regional teacher pay plan

Plans to introduce regional pay for public-sector workers risk discriminating against older teachers and those working in primary schools, a union warned today.




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AUDIO: Union concern over new reading test

The NUT’s General Secretary Christine Blower told BBC Radio 5 live what she made of the new phonics-based reading test.
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