This figure relies on a number of questionable assumptions. In particular, it’s calculated using an unreliable measure of inflation. Other measures suggest the drop has been less—our independently ...

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Teachers could follow resident doctors and strike next year unless Labour hikes pay and plugs school funding gaps, the bosses of two major teaching unions have warned. Matt Wrack, general secretary of ...

Mr Wrack warned members “expected change” after Labour won the general election, but they are “not convinced that change is being delivered, either adequately enough or quickly enough”. Meanwhile, ...