Press Releases

The NASUWt comments on the Secretary of State's statement to the House of Commons Select Committee.

The Report demonstrates that schools in Wales are performing remarkably well given the climate of underinvestment.

The Government is intent on privileging academic over vocational courses in pursuit of its elitist approach to education.

Government policies aim to make education more attractive to predatory businesses.

Schools and staff need support and resources, not constant denigration.

In a publicly accountable system it is not acceptable for ministers to only publish information which suits them.

The NASUWT comments on Gordon Brown’s call for a global education fund.

NASUWT members are taking strike action at Montgomery Primary School in Birmingham over plans to force the school into becoming an academy.

The NASUWT comments on DfE figures regarding the number of primary schools signing up to the Government’s phonics funding.

This announcement will encourage a culture of vicious management practices in schools, which will have a profoundly negative effect on the workforce and young people.

The NASUWT welcomes the Shadow Chancellor's recognition of the importance of, and commitment to, pay review bodies.

“This is yet another depressingly predictable announcement from a Government seemingly intent on destroying the teaching profession and state-education.

The NASUWT responds to the publication of school banding scores in Wales.

Gove speech is 'no way to promote the value of a subject that is critical to education in the 21st century.'

The NASUWT rejects the notion that ICT in schools is of poor quality and dull.

The NASUWT comments on a report which calls for academies run by the military to be set up in areas of deprivation.

The National Executive endorsed unanimously the stance taken by the NASUWT negotiators not to sign up to the Government's 'Heads of Agreement' and to reserve the Union's position.

It is clear that Michael Gove now considers himself to be the Secretary of State for Academies and Free Schools, rather than the Secretary of State for Education.

The NASUWT opposes plans to transfer health and safety responsibility from local authorities to governing bodies.

The NASUWT welcomes the announcement by exams regulator Ofqual that it is requiring each exam board to take actions to improve the control of exam papers.