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Teachers pay (dcsf news)

Children, Schools and Families Secretary, Ed Balls, today announced that he accepts the three-year pay recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) for a 2.45 per cent pay rise for teachers from September 2008, with additional increases for some London teachers, and increases of 2.3 per cent per year from 2009 and 2010.

The principal recommendations the Secretary of State proposes to implement are More>>

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All parents to get regular online reports on their children’s progress (dcsf news)

All parents will get regular electronic reports on their children’s progress in future – going far beyond the traditional annual school report, Schools Minister Jim Knight announced this week.

Opening BETT 2008, the world’s largest educational technology trade show, he said all secondary schools will be expected to have ‘real-time’ reporting systems up and running by 2010 and all primary schools two years later. Many schools already run these systems. More>>

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