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According to the report, a survey of more than 4,700 union members revealed that 38% of female school teachers have faced verbal harassment from students in the last...

Many pupils, from the youngest coming from nursery to young adults going to university, have found moving from one phase of education to another hard. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy Many pupils, from the youngest coming from nursery to young adults going to university, have found moving from one phase of education to another hard. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy Sun 4 Apr 2021 03.45 EDT Children who moved from primary to secondary school last September need extra care and attention to prev...

Implementing the changes in 2022 does not give schools sufficient time post-pandemic, a union says.

NASUWT leader says some boys’ behaviour not acceptable and no women should feel unsafe in school

Teachers are being subjected to “derogatory sexualised” terms, as well as violence and threats by pupils in the classroom, a union conference has been told. The NASUWT union’s annual conference heard that teachers have witnessed a “deterioration” in pupil behaviour over recent years, with many staff “struggling alone” with extreme cases in the classroom. A motion passed at the conference condemned schools and colleges who claim that “unacceptable” pupil behaviour is just “pa...

The NASUWT teaching union has accused the Education Secretary of failing to address ‘many serious issues’ affecting teachers.

A leading teachers union is calling for a change in legislation to ensure no teacher can be discriminated against when applying for jobs, regardless of their religion. The NASUWT annual conference will today push for changes to the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1988 and wants to see the exemption regarding the employment of teachers in schools removed. Discrimination laws in Northern Ireland state it remains perfectly legal for an employer to select between applicants for teaching po...

Education Secretary speech to NASUWT Annual Conference Gavin Williamson addresses the 2021 Annual Conference of teaching union NASUWT From: 3 April 2021 (Original script, may differ from delivered version) Thank you very much for inviting me to join your conference today. I’m delighted to have this opportunity to speak to you personally. You will often hear people say that the most important person in a classroom is the one that’s standing at the front of it. That has never been more tr...

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will address the NASUWT teaching union conference.

“Schools need to be absolutely clear about the kind of behaviour expectations that they have both for pupils, and also for parents,” Roach said. “One of the things that concerns us is, we’ve had members who’ve reported, for example, abusive ‘parent bombing’ during online lessons, and they’ve been told: ‘You’re just going to have to work your way through it, you’re just going to have to get on with it.’ “Well, frankly, that’s not good enough. You know if a parent were...