Teachers vote for another three days of strikes

Teacher strikes are apt to proceed successful England until the extremity of the schoolhouse year, aft National Education Union (NEU) members voted for 3 onslaught days successful precocious June oregon aboriginal July.

The NEU besides plans to inquire members whether they privation to proceed onslaught enactment adjacent year.

Most teachers were offered 4.3% emergence adjacent year, arsenic good arsenic a £1,000 one-off outgo this year. Starting salaries would besides emergence to £30,000 from September.

The 3 further dates - which members voted for astatine the NEU league successful Harrogate - volition present person to beryllium approved by the NEU enforcement erstwhile it meets connected 18 May.

The proposals mean strikes volition not instrumentality spot portion students beryllium their A-level and GCSE exams.

However, the NEU intends to usage the exam play - which starts connected 15 May - to re-ballot its teacher members successful England connected further onslaught enactment successful the adjacent world year.

Kevin Courtney, its associated wide secretary, said: "Parents and the acquisition assemblage volition beryllium successful nary uncertainty that if further concern enactment needs to beryllium taken the blasted for this volition prevarication squarely astatine the government's door."

Less than fractional of England's schools were afloat operational during nationalist teacher strikes connected 1 February and 15 and 16 March.

Negotiations aft the past nationalist onslaught resulted successful an improved wage connection from the government.

The results of the NEU ballot connected Monday recovered 98% of members were successful favour of turning the woody down.

The Association of School and College leaders besides overwhelmingly rejected the wage offer.

Both unions reason it was not afloat funded, which could mean schools having to marque cuts elsewhere.

The authorities said it believed schools could spend to money astir of the 4.3% wage emergence through money already promised successful the Autumn Budget, but that it would person provided immoderate further wealth to money the remainder of it, and to money the £1,000 one-off payment.

But Luke Sibieta, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said schools budgets could lone sorb "a tiny amount" of the wage offer.

Ms Keegan said wage would present beryllium decided by the autarkic wage reappraisal body, which would urge wage rises for adjacent year. This means the £1,000 outgo for this twelvemonth volition not happen.

Teacher salaries fell by an mean of 11% betwixt 2010 and 2022, aft taking ostentation into account, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Most authorities schoolhouse teachers successful England had a 5% emergence successful 2022.