Workforce
Covering the challenges and opportunities facing education professionals, this section explores teacher recruitment, retention, workload management, and wellbeing strategies. From professional development opportunities to tackling burnout, we provide insights to support a sustainable teaching workforce.
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Apr- 2025 -15 April
Racist rhetoric ‘inevitably’ influences pupils, NAHT warns
The National Association of Head Teachers has warned that racist rhetoric in wider society inevitably influences school children, and has called for a “proactive, anti-racist approach to education”, including for all school staff to receive mandatory anti-racism training. It comes as the school leaders’ union has brought a motion to…
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14 April
NEU indicative ballet shows strike appetite despite low turnout
The National Education Union (NEU) has revealed its members have voted to reject the government’s pay offer of 2.8% for all teachers and leaders in England. Members also indicated their willingness to take strike action to secure a fully funded, significantly higher pay award to address the crisis in school…
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9 April
Third of teachers report misogynistic behaviour from pupils in last week
More than a third of secondary teachers have reported misogynistic behaviour from pupils at their school in the last week, while 40% said they felt ill-equipped to handle this conduct, according to a survey commissioned by BBC News.The BBC surveyed 6,000 secondary school teachers about their experiences of misogyny in…
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4 April
Schools face students’ mental health crisis, new data says
Schools are facing an escalating crisis in student mental health post-pandemic, new research has shown. According to the Lumii.me wellbeing platform, nearly three children in the average UK classroom are experiencing daily emotional distress. Due to the rapid rise in these challenges many schools are not equipped to handle this…
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Mar- 2025 -24 March
Lidl invests £500k in healthy eating schools programme
Lidl is investing £500,000 over two years in a new schools programme, Lidl Foodies, to help children across the country develop healthy eating. The free initiative, which provides interactive workshops on fruit and vegetables, aims to reach a quarter of a million primary school pupils in its first year alone,…
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