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THIS academic year so far has felt strange. A bit anticlimactic even, after such an intense year of industrial action in education. In fact in 2023 I was on strike for more days than in the last 12 years of my teaching career.
After the most intensive industrial action in the history of the National Education Union (NEU) the executive committee recommended that members accept the offer set out by the government. A 6.5 per cent pay rise and £900 million additional funding came with assurances that this funding would not come from front-line school or college budgets.
With the executive, outgoing general secretaries and the incoming general secretary all in favour of the deal it was inevitable that the membership would accept the offer. And so they did in large numbers.
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