AUSTERITY-HIT teachers across England are set to strike once again over pay next month, the National Education Union (NEU) announced over the weekend.

Following five national and three regional walkouts earlier this year, teachers nationwide will down tools on July 5 and 7, with most primaries and secondaries likely to fully or partially close, the union warned.

It urged Tory ministers to reopen negotiations after members of all four of the country’s education unions overwhelmingly rejected a massively below-inflation 4.3 per cent wage deal for the current financial year.