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Mary Bousted

July 2023

  • Sign held up above crowd reads 'I'd rather be teaching my students, your children'

    Pay rise of 6.5% would end England’s teacher strikes, union leader suggests

    Mary Bousted urges ministers to publish recommendation from pay body, thought to be 6.5%, and fund schools to pay it

June 2023

  • Striking teachers hold placards saying 'teachers just wanna have funds'.

    Teachers in England to stage fresh strikes for two days in July

    Members of the NEU will strike on 5 and 7 July in a long-running dispute over pay and funding

March 2023

  • Education secretary Gillian Keegan.

    School heads in England prepare for new strike ballot as pay talks stall

    NAHT blames education secretary Gillian Keegan’s refusal to negotiate until teacher stoppages are called off

July 2022

  • Teacher in a classroom in England

    Teaching unions warn of strikes in England despite reports of improved pay offer

    Review body said to have told DfE 3% rise inadequate and instead recommended 5%

February 2021

  • Two children engaged in remote learning.

    England’s ‘catch-up’ tutors are being short-changed by private employers

    Scheme to remedy Covid education loss sees teachers paid a fraction of hourly rate charged

September 2020

  • Pupils returning to school in London last week

    Boris Johnson’s catch-up tutoring 'will arrive too late' for pupils who need it most

    The £350m initiative promised by Boris Johnson will not be in place in schools until spring 2021, warn unions

May 2020

  • An empty playground at Milton St. John’s Primary School in Mossley, Greater Manchester.

    Poll reveals half of parents unconvinced that school is safe for their children's return

    Teachers union leader warns situation ‘chaotic and untenable’ as poll reveals extent of uncertainty over return of pupils

January 2018

  • Officials say the rise in underperforming schools is because of technical changes to the points system.

    One in eight secondary schools in England are ‘failing’

    DfE finds rise in underperforming schools, yet some are rated outstanding by Ofsted

November 2017

  • Brexit<br>Environment Secretary Michael Gove looks at screens in the information pod in the forest zone at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking, after he told an audience of environmental and countryside organisations that Brexit gives scope for Britain to be a global leader in green policy. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday July 21, 2017. See PA story POLITICS Environment. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

    Michael Gove: from 'shy green' to 'full-throated environmentalist'?

    Many feared what the MP would do when he became environment secretary this year – but he has pleasantly surprised his critics

April 2015

  • A boy carrying a flag for the National Union of Teachers during a strike in Bradford last year. The union has discussed ‘joint working’ with the ATL.

    Teachers' 'super-union' a possibility as NUT and ATL discuss collaboration

    No formal merger talks but National Union of Teachers tells annual conference of progress in talks on ‘joint working’ with Association of Teachers and Lecturers

April 2014

  • David Blunkett

    Blunkett school plans 'could end Balkanisation of education'

  • Ofsted inconsistency

    Ofsted lost in 'mire of inconsistency', says ATL teaching union chief

April 2012

  • Michael Rosen questions the wisdom of naming a report on improving English 'Moving English Forward'

    Letter from a curious parent
    Dear Mr Gove: Michael Rosen's letter from a curious parent

    The author has some questions for the education secretary

September 2011

  • Union leader: Len McCluskey

    Inside the minds of our union bosses

    In an age of austerity and public service cuts, Britain's trade union leaders are playing a more central role than for many years. In the run-up to the TUC congress, Elizabeth Day and Euan Ferguson get to know them better

March 2010

  • Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers

    Bad behaviour in the classroom is being fuelled by parents, union leader says

    Mary Bousted of the ATL says some parents are 'buying off' their children with computers instead of teaching them social skills

February 2010

  • mary bousted

    Leading questions
    'I am passionately interested in training and development for working people'

    Mary Bousted is general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and chair of the TUC's Unionlearn

April 2009

  • Inspection / regulation

    Teachers support inspections, say Ofsted

  • Don't blame teachers when it's parents who are failing

    Mary Bousted

October 2008

  • Teachers don't mind being accountable, but this was over-regulation

    Dr Mary Bousted

    Response: Key stage 3 Sats damaged children's motivation, and that's why we opposed them, says Mary Bousted

September 2004

  • My favourite lesson
    Model behaviour

    A charismatic English teacher changed the course of Mary Bousted's life

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