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Eroding budgets, staff shortages and exhaustion from the pandemic mean school leadership is in crisis, support service warns

Secondary teachers’ union withdraws involvement in Scottish strike action next week ‘in the expectation of an improved pay offer in the coming days’

The pay deal is similar to one proposed last April and equates to a 9.42% increase for the lowest-paid staff

Your round-up of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ essential news and analysis from the past week includes the government’s recommendation for teacher pay next year, an attempt to halt next week’s strikes and a new teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates

Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland has voted to accept revised teacher pay offer made last week – but NASUWT Scotland union votes to reject

NEU stands firm over strikes but Downing Street said there will be ‘no talks’ if next week’s strike action is not cancelled first

EIS teaching union says it is up to individual teachers if they want to be SQA markers, even though ‘targeting of SQA-related activity’ is ‘outwith the scope of the current industrial action’

Most academy trusts with 25 schools or more increased the salary band of their top earner last year, ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis reveals

The proposal comes after education secretary Gillian Keegan invited unions to new formal pay talks on the condition that next week’s teacher strikes are called off

Some teachers are turning to food banks and considering quitting to work in supermarkets, Scottish Parliament hears

The harm caused by ‘systematic underfunding’ in education over the past decade is ‘the real threat’ to children’s futures – not strike action, says union

There was a change of tone from the government in this week’s teacher pay talks, says ASCL leader Geoff Barton – but without a concrete offer, it’s hard to imagine future strikes will be averted