Articles from United Kingdom
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 January 2018 UK: Scrutinising the notion of ‘high-performing’ schools
Teacher unionists in the UK have requested public authorities to explain the term ‘high performing’ schools, and reiterated the need for social justice and social mobility for all young people.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 December 2017 UK: official education inspection body needs to up its game, say unions
UK teacher unions have re-affirmed the Government’s responsibility to acknowledge the need for a fully functioning and quality education system.
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Standards and working conditions 11 December 2017 UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession – union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 November 2017 The child at the centre: the Scottish experience on health and wellbeing in schools
Goof Buijs
Scotland is one of the leading countries in the world when it comes to promoting the health and well-being of school-aged children. Since Scotland got its own parliament in 1999, the Scottish Government has full responsibility for its education system. Top priority in the national policy is to reduce health...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 November 2017 UK: unions push for increased education spending in latest budget
To improve education for the country’s children, teachers’ unions have urged the UK Government to increase funding for schools as the country gears up for its budget and schools face real-term cuts.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 November 2017 Academic freedom and the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation: a view from Europe
Rob Copeland
For unions in the higher education and research sector, this year’s World Teachers’ Day takes on the greatest significance.
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Standards and working conditions 25 October 2017 UK: Flexible working needed to solve recruitment and retention crisis
Better part-time and flexible working opportunities can help solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in the UK, say education unions in response to the latest National Foundation for Educational Research’s report.
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Equity and inclusion 18 October 2017 NASUWT (UK) joins forces with Citizens UK to promote « refugee welcome schools »
The UK’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis means that at least 20,000 refugees from that conflict will arrive between now and 2020. Many will be resettled in communities that have never hosted refugees before.
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Equity and inclusion 18 October 2017 In the UK, racial inequality in schools is ‘deep-rooted, endemic and institutionalised'
Patrick Roach
Last week’s Racial Disparity Audit depressingly confirms what many of us know - namely that racial disadvantage and discrimination is widespread within our school system.
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Equity and inclusion 10 October 2017 UK: Racial discrimination is a reality in schools and classrooms
Discrimination is ravaging many British schools, according to a Government audit, and educators are determined to change that.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 October 2017 UK: teacher unions highlight need of students’ mental health support
Teacher unions in the UK have reiterated educators’ commitment to ensure that the government takes account of their students’ mental health to achieve quality education.
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Union growth 25 September 2017 UK: recruitment and retention top the list of demands to be put at the heart of governmental policy
Following on the latest report by the National Audit Office, UK education unions have urged the government to step up its efforts to ensure the recruitment and retention in the profession of properly trained teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 September 2017 Sally Hunt elected new President of the TUC
Education International welcomes the election of education unionist Sally Hunt to the helm of the Trades Union Congress.
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Union growth 1 September 2017 UK: education unions merge to form new organisation
The creation of a new education has become a reality in the UK following the amalgamation of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the National Union of Teachers, creating the National Education Union.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 August 2017 UK: with a new school year comes an increasing need for teachers
Reports of a teacher shortage in Scotland as schools prepare to reopen their doors have prompted one of the United Kingdom’s education unions to urge the government to find a solution to a growing problem.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 August 2017 UK: A-Level results provide cover for problems plaguing education
Following the release of A-Level results, UK teacher unions have highlighted the hard work and commitment of both students and their teachers despite a hastily reformed curriculum and funding cuts in education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2017 UK: student attainment gap must be narrowed to achieve quality education for all
Education unions have reacted to the latest report into the progress made by the UK Government to narrow the student attainment gap, demanding that public authorities stop austerity measures and increase investment in the education system.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 August 2017 UK: Increasing class sizes increase teachers’ workload
In response to Labour Party figures showing that students are being taught in increasingly overloaded classes, UK education unions have urged the Government to act and improve students’ learning environments and teachers’ working conditions.
UK: Increasing class sizes increase teachers’ workload