By Graeme Paton, Education Editor telegraph
The National Union of Teachers wants an increase more than four times higher than the Government’s public sector pay settlement, prompting accusations that they are out of touch with the realities of the economy.
Private sector workers are seeing their salaries fall at the fastest rate on record and the value of their pensions crumble. Consequently, Gordon Brown has pledged to limit the growth of pay for public sector workers – whose pensions are guaranteed by the state, to 2 per cent.
Public sector workers could see …

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By Richard Garner
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Teachers’ leaders have thrown their weight behind a pay claim of least 10 per cent after hearing a young teacher claim she had been forced to quit and work abroad because she could not afford to live on her salary.
Delegates to the National Union of Teachers’ annual conference voted overwhelmingly for a motion calling for a 10 per cent or £3,000 pay rise next year – plus an extra 6 per cent to counter below-inflation settlements over the past four years. The decision immediately provoked …

Teachers are demanding one day a week outside the classroom mark work and prepare lessons. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Telegraph
27 Mar 2009
The National Union of Teachers – Britain’s biggest classroom union – insist newly-qualified staff should only spend three days out of every five in front of pupils.
It is also calling for the working week to be slashed to 35 hours and a break for any teaching session lasting more than two hours.
Caning pupils ‘can be effective behaviour control’The demands come amid claims teachers are being over-worked.
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NEARLY 5,000 children in London were told today that they have no place at a state secondary school for September.
And more than 26,000 pupils – one in three – missed out on their first choice school as London families were hardest hit by the intense competition.
The success rate fell in 12 boroughs this year, leaving thousands of parents facing the prospect of sending their children to less popular comprehensives, or trying to scrape together enough money to go private.
The figures came as parents of 78,180 children across the capital were …