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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan leaves 10 Downing Street, London, March 15, 2023
EDUCATION SECRETARY Gillian Keegan has been warned to heed the consequences of failing to reopen negotiations on teachers’ pay.
NASUWT general secretary Patrick Roach made the plea to Ms Keegan in his address at the union’s annual conference in Glasgow on Sunday.
He said that she needed the “ministerial competence” to address the pay dispute after teachers in England rejected the one-off payment of £1,000 for 2022/23 and an average 4.5 per cent salary increase for 2023/24.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
