Press Releases

The announcement by Michael Gove today on establishing a ‘formidable reform programme’ for schools owes more to ideology than it does to a genuine attempt to further improve schools.

The NASUWT comments on the roll-out of the Welsh Assembly Government’s flagship Foundation Phase policy to all five and six year olds

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, has condemned the subterfuge and secrecy the Coalition Government has employed to seek to press schools into becoming academies.

The NASUWT responds to reports that Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council, is writing to the Scottish Government to urge ministers to reopen a national agreement on teachers' pay and conditions in Scotland.

Congratulations to all those students collecting their results in what is another year of fantastic success and achievement.

The NASUWT comments on the release of the GCSE results in Wales.

The NASUWT comments on the publication of this year’s GCSE results in Northern Ireland.

The NASUWT is pleased to announce that Tim Cox, NASUWT Executive Member, has been reappointed as a Council Member of the General Teaching Council for Wales (GTCW).

Congratulations are due to young people and their teachers on another record-breaking year of achievement.

These results once again demonstrate the fantastic achievements of students and teachers in Northern Ireland.

The NASUWT comments on the release of the Welsh A level results.

As this year’s A-level students prepare to receive their results, the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, is calling on the Government not to squander their potential by further funding cuts to education and training.

Ofsted's report highlights the importance of schools working together collaboratively to meet the needs of excluded pupils.

Teachers in state schools are passionately concerned about the outcomes achieved by their pupils. It is deeply insulting to suggest that teachers don’t care.

There is a real danger that revoking the requirement for behaviour partnerships from September 1 risks increased classroom disruption, bullying, gang-related violence and truancy.

The NASUWT comments on the latest sample test results for Key Stage 2 Science.

The NASUWT comments on the amendment of the requirement under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, repealing the requirement on all schools to record and report incidents of the use of force against pupils.

The academies and free schools policies should never have seen the light of day.

A major outstanding problem that blights teachers’ careers is the wide variation in the recording and reporting by the police of so-called ‘soft’ information, connected with an allegation and its investigation.

Young people, parents and teachers will be deeply alarmed by forecasts from the CIPD that one in three employers will cut jobs in the next three months.