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The teaching profession is at breaking point
The failure to provide salaries which are competitive and which reflect the immensely skilled nature of the job of teaching is triggering a teacher exodus, warns NASUWT general secretary PATRICK ROACH
NASUWT leader Patrick Roach
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
AFTER two years of being forced to move to a virtual event, I am delighted that this year the NASUWT is able to return to holding an in-person annual conference this weekend.
Our members are gathering in Birmingham for four days of debates and discussion which will set our policy agenda for the year ahead.
Our agenda is decided by our members, they tell us what matters to them, but underlying the wide-ranging set of issues which will be debated runs a thread of discontent at the growing crisis in teacher wellbeing and morale.
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