What happened to the Rishi Sunak I knew at school?
‘National pay and conditions, combined with some flexibility for schools is the fairest and most efficient approach.’
The NUT’s ballot on whether to take industrial action over a very wide range of grievances with Michael Gove closes on 6 September. Among those issues is regional and local pay. If the ballot does return in support of strike action, it will be interesting to see whether the union leaders continue to cite regional pay following this study. Still more interesting will be whether Twigg feels it is politically expedient to support them, or whether he wishes to focus more on what ‘some flexibility for schools’ might mean.
P.S. After reading the NASUWT’s statement about ‘flawed methodology’ on their website, I fell upon this rather amusing error in a report about teachers’ morale:
The graph above might be something the union wants to have a chat about with its maths teacher members before it promotes it too widely as part of its ‘Standing up for Standards’ campaign…
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