School News

• Chartered College tells ministers it won’t need further handouts November 20, 2019
  The Chartered College of Teaching has told ministers they will be self-sufficient from March and won’t need further funding, as membership numbers pass the 30,000-mark. The news comes as the professional body for teaching launches its ‘teachers’ manifesto’ today. The manifesto includes calls for experienced staff to be rewarded with sabbaticals, a national “CPD expectation”…
• Lib Dems pledge to boost teacher numbers by 20,000 November 19, 2019
  The Liberal Democrats will pledge to increase teacher numbers in British schools by 20,000 over the next five years. In its manifesto, to be launched tomorrow, the party will also promise to increase the schools budget by £10 billion by 2024-25. A further £7 billion would be allocated for new school buildings and maintenance over…
• End ‘shameful’ fire safety record with sprinklers for all schools, unions urge Williamson November 19, 2019
  The government has been told its “shameful” record on fire safety must end, and demanded that sprinklers be fitted in all schools. Four education unions have written to education secretary Gavin Williamson today amid the fall-out after a huge blaze at student accommodation in Bolton. A Schools Week investigation in September found just three per…