Alan Meyrick has been appointed as the chief executive of the new Teaching Regulation Agency responsible for the regulation of the teaching profession.
The National Education Union (NEU) is marking International Women’s Day and the TUC's Women's Pay Day by challenging the government to take action to make teaching a genuinely equal profession for women teachers.
Research by the School Cuts coalition of unions (NEU, NAHT, ASCL, UNISON, GMB and Unite) shows that class sizes are rising in the majority of secondary schools as a result of the government’s underfunding of education.
Career changers aiming to become teachers in priority science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM) subjects can apply for a new £20,000 bursary from 3 April.