Another year of poor ITT recruitment is on the cards, with 11 out of 17 subjects below target, and geography and primary also likely to be below. Bursaries and international recruitment propping some subjects up a little, but generally weak like last year
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📢 Teachers' voices matter! The UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession stresses the critical role of social and policy dialogue in education.

Join us in advocating for participatory approaches that empower teachers and benefit students.
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This is just brilliant Matt Green

Volkswagen auto workers in Chattanooga became the first in the South not in the Big Three to successfully unionize. They weren't swayed by mgmt's preemptive 11% raises and learned from UAW workers' wins as well as their own prior losses, Luis Feliz Leon wrote: labornotes.org/2024/04/histor…

This is Natasha Devon 🌈💙 at her brilliant best.

TUC analysis shows that the value of teachers' pay was cut by £172 per week (18%) between 2010 and 2023. 🔗 bit.ly/3JKTolD

Teacher pay is not attractive compared to other graduate professions - teacher shortages mean children are losing out. #InvestInEducation

Rishi Sunak is seeking to alienate vulnerable people in an attempt to recover his poor polling ratings

A thread on this week’s announcement 🧵

My message in the US this week - with Labour the UK would:

➡️Restore development as a key pillar of our internationalism.

➡️Bring new and creative ideas to the table on debt, climate & private finance.

➡️Support partners in the Global South to eliminate poverty through growth.

This 💯⬇️

Free to download. Some really good thinking and writing on how to review and repurpose public education.

Oof - Nick Boles on fire here. 🔥

Best Letter to the Editor I have read in a long time.

Schools are now the biggest source of charitable food and household aid for struggling families in the cost-of-living crisis, University of Bristol research shows
tes.com/magazine/news/…

Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The UK is one of the last major donors that hasn’t announced a resumption of funding to UNRWA.
 
Time has run out for hundreds of thousands of people without food, water or basic essentials.
 
My letter urgently calling for a clear and fast path for UNRWA funding to resume. 👇

“Republicans are 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 at what the Arizona Supreme Court has done.”

Is the overturning of Roe v. Wade proving to be the 'poison pill' for the man who boasted of orchestrating it?

👉 app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/tnausapod

emily m | Jon Sopel

We at Trades Union Congress could provide Esther McVey with a significant list of reasons why paid time off for union duties actually represents EXCELLENT value for money. But I doubt she’s arsed about actual facts.

Of course, it isn’t really a fight about oracy. That’s just a cover for something else altogether…..

The Good Friday Agreement, signed 26 years ago today, is one of Labour’s proudest achievements.

Courageous leadership like Mo Mowlam's finally ended the Troubles, bringing peace to Northern Ireland.

We celebrate the progress made since then and must never take it for granted.

I'm coming late to this but just got to reading the full report. The findings don't surprise me at all because Sure Start Local Programmes were rooted in evidence & targeted in the poorest areas. But successive govts made two crucial errors (I was there, as a civil servant).

This is frankly bizarre. It’s fiddling whilst the teaching profession burns. The causes of the teacher supply crisis are well known. They must be addressed if teaching is going to recover its status as a desirable profession.