The National Education Union is demanding an above-inflation pay increase this year. If this is not forthcoming then strike action is once again on the table, warns Daniel Kebede.
I’m going to begin by doing something I wouldn’t normally do, which is to approvingly quote something Rishi Sunak has said.
In his speech launching the unwanted Advanced British Standard in October last year, he said: “Education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet – it is the best economic policy, the best social policy and the best moral policy.”
I couldn’t agree more. The problem is that ever since, he hasn’t put his money where his mouth is.
