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A large crowd of teachers marched through London’s Oxford Circus on February 1 while around the nation thousands of teachers, train and bus drivers and civil servants participated in strikes on a day dubbed “Walkout Wednesday", Yahoo reports.
The National Education Union (NEU) has cited “a decade of falling pay” and “a crisis of recruitment and retention within the school system” as motivations for the strike.
Twenty-five per cent of teachers leave the profession within two years of qualifying, and a third within five years, according to the NEU.
UK Education Secretary Gillian Keegan shared a video message in which she said the government was “working hard to minimize the impact of strike action on children.”
Ms Keegan said she had met the unions many times and was “hugely disappointed” that they had decided to take strike action.
Up to half a million workers are reportedly believed to have taken part in the February 1 strike and more than half the UK’s schools closed or partially closed, according to Evening Standard reporting.
Source: Yahoo
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A large crowd of teachers marched through London’s Oxford Circus on February 1 while around the nation thousands of teachers, train and bus drivers and civil servants participated in strikes on a day dubbed “Walkout Wednesday", Yahoo reports.
The National Education Union (NEU) has cited “a decade of falling pay” and “a crisis of recruitment and retention within the school system” as motivations for the strike.
Twenty-five per cent of teachers leave the profession within two years of qualifying, and a third within five years, according to the NEU.
UK Education Secretary Gillian Keegan shared a video message in which she said the government was “working hard to minimize the impact of strike action on children.”
Ms Keegan said she had met the unions many times and was “hugely disappointed” that they had decided to take strike action.
Up to half a million workers are reportedly believed to have taken part in the February 1 strike and more than half the UK’s schools closed or partially closed, according to Evening Standard reporting.
Source: Yahoo
(Links and quotes via original reporting)