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Multi-academy trusts are getting away with “the fraudulent misuse of public money” while Ofsted and schools commissioners fight a turf war, a union leader has warned. Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, used her speech to the ATL conference this morning to call for the resurrection of the “public […]

Dr Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the ATL, delivered a powerful speech to the union’s last conference in Liverpool this morning. Here’s what she said.   I feel quite emotional right now. It is sixteen years since I first made first my speech to an ATL conference. And as this is the last speech […]

If the government does not reduce teacher workload, the National Education Union will take action, one of its leaders has warned. Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the NEU, told the ATL section conference this morning that the time has come for a limit on teachers’ working hours. She also warned that her […]

The National Education Union will discuss proposals for a union-run supply teacher vacancy service after members demanded action on agencies that make exorbitant charges on schools but pay their staff a pittance. Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers section of the union voted at their annual conference today to back proposals for an […]

Schools will no longer be forced to collect data on their pupils’ nationality and country of birth following a major U-turn by the government, Schools Week can exclusively reveal. The Department for Education is expected to write to schools in the coming weeks to outline its plans to remove the controversial categories from the school […]

School support staff are being forced to work unpaid overtime as a result of increasing workload and dwindling staffing levels, a new survey has found. Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that school support staff are “feeling the brunt” of school cuts, with redundancies forcing those left in the […]

Pressure to boost pupil test scores and exam grades is to blame for the workload woes of three in four teachers, according to a National Education Union survey. Of the 8,173 teachers asked by the NEU about what causes excessive work, 74 per cent said pressure to improve pupil test scores and exam results is […]

As many as one in eight children stand to lose their entitlement to free school meals under new eligibility criteria introduced by the government, according to a leading spending watchdog. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that although 210,000 children previously ineligible for free meals stand to gain under the new system, 160,000 pupils who […]

The union-led school funding campaign credited with bringing the issue to the forefront of last year’s general election campaign is not over, Kevin Courtney said today. During a barnstorming speech to the National Union of Teachers annual conference in Brighton this afternoon, the National Education Union joint general secretary defied critics of school cuts campaign, […]