Press releases

EPI on Extra-Curricular Activities

Date: 14/02/2024

Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the NEU on the Education Policy Institute reports examining participation in sports and other hobbies at secondary school.

Funding

School funding statistics

Date: 25/01/2024

1 in 8 schools were in deficit at the end of the financial year 2022-23.

Funding

NEU and UCU share concerns over Welsh Government budget plans

Date: 19/12/2023

We believe that Wales can and must do better.

Funding

IFS on education spending in England

Date: 11/12/2023

A damning indictment of the Government’s failure to invest in education.

Funding

Letter to Gillian Keegan on teacher pay

Date: 07/12/2023

NEU calls out the Government for failure to invest in education and delaying the school teacher pay review body process in England.

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Pay

Teacher training targets

Date: 07/12/2023

Government’s failure to meet teacher training recruitment targets in England.

Autumn Statement

Date: 22/11/2023

The Chancellor makes a mockery of the repeated claim that education is at the heart of this Government’s priorities.

Funding

School Cuts relaunch

Date: 15/11/2023

School Cuts website relaunched as funding crisis in education deepens.

Funding

Joint union call for significant increase in school funding

Date: 09/11/2023

Schools on brink unless Chancellor delivers £1.7billion in Autumn Statement for 2024/25, says joint letter to Chancellor from four education unions.

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Impact of training bursaries on teacher recruitment and retention

Date: 09/11/2023

Lack of impact shown in NFER report suggests bursaries are a sticking plaster to avoid real action.

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King’s Speech

Date: 07/11/2023

The Government has forgotten its responsibilities.

Current school funding levels are inadequate

Date: 04/11/2023

Members’ survey says lack of Government funding having a major impact on schools and children’s learning.