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NEU conference: pay, Palestine, and professional unity
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
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IT’S conference season again and the National Education Union (NEU) is back in Harrogate. If you’ve not been, Harrogate is a lovely spa town in North Yorkshire that was once voted the happiest place to live in Britain three years in a row.
But delegates aren’t here to sample the spring water or take a medicinal bath; they are there to set the agenda of the union for another year.
The union heads to conference having just finished an indicative ballot over pay and funding. Members voted to reject the government’s pay offer of 2.8 per cent for all teachers and leaders in England. This below-inflation, unfunded pay rise will do more harm than good.
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