Pay & Conditions

With no breakthrough in pay negotiations before the school holidays – although councils highlight an offer made to all local government staff – the 1 August implementation date for this year’s pay award will be missed

Teachers at 14 Outwood Grange secondaries will continue to take strike action through July

Scottish local authorities are accused of ‘running down the clock’ on the government’s flagship policy of reducing teachers’ class-contact time

‘Exhausted and burnt out’ teachers urgently need the long-promised reduction in class-contact time, says Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

Thinking about a new job? Here is our guide to teacher and headteacher resignation dates – and a timeline of what you should be doing and when

Schools could see real-terms falls in actual budgets as pupil numbers fall and more is spent on SEND

The gender pay gap for secondary headteachers is widening. Ten years ago there wasn’t a gap at all. What’s going on? Ellen Peirson-Hagger analyses the data

The DfE is consulting on excluding certain staff – including MAT leaders – from the new School Support Staff Negotiating Body

EIS general secretary makes her comments to AGM delegates as she formally opens a ballot on industrial action over workload

Plan comes as figures suggest language assistant hires have fallen for the first time in five years

Education secretary asked if it will ‘take a teacher being murdered at work’ to see ‘real action to protect staff from violence and aggression in schools’

Teachers in Scotland have lost patience over the slow progress on cutting class-contact time by 90 minutes a week, says SSTA