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Don’t miss your round-up of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ must-read news and analysis from the past week, including the announcement of teacher strikes and what this industrial action will mean for individual teachers and schools

In a sample extract from the second edition of The State of Independence, Jonathan Simons proposes other ways private schools could make themselves accessible beyond simply offering financial assistance to families

Councils say they are being told to use cash earmarked for additional teachers and support staff to fund the 2021-22 teacher pay award

Education secretary said schools need to be kept open for vulnerable pupils ‘in particular’ as the largest teaching union announced 7 days of strike action

Schools should prioritise exam students, vulnerable children and pupils with key worker parents, Department for Education guidance states

The NAHT union says it would consider re-running its ballot, as it says voting was disrupted by postal delays

The NEU teaching union is declaring seven days of strike action in February and March

NASUWT teaching union has said it remains in dispute with the government and ‘will be campaigning vigorously to ensure the repeal of all anti-trade union laws’

First minister adopts more conciliatory tone, but EIS general secretary raises possibility of strike action continuing into 2023-24

But NEU teaching union joint leader Mary Bousted thinks strikes during summer exams are ‘unlikely’

‘Scotland’s teachers have simply had enough,’ says union boss after months of little movement in pay dispute

Ballot administrator admits postal strikes could have caused problems with the NASUWT strike ballot, after ÌÇÐÄVlog reveals that members did not receive papers