Tes - The Education Podcast

Welcome back to the tes news podcast. This week Senior content writer Grainne Hallahan is joined by reporter Matilda Martine as they discuss the future of digital assessment and why there is a shortage of invigilators.This week's headline stories are available below:NEU attacks ‘new and unusual’ DfE stance on pay talksThe NEU teaching union went ahead with a two day teacher strike this week and said that 300,000 members were taking part. It also strongly criticised the DfE for meeting with the other main education unions this week but refusing to meet the NEU unless it called off the strike.https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/teacher-strikes-pay-neu-distraction-politicshttps://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/teacher-pay-strike-neu-attacks-dfe-stance-talks-gillian%20keegan Workload is unmanageable, say most school staffMore than two-thirds of school staff (68 per cent) think their workload is unmanageable, according to an annual survey conducted by Tes.The findings were revealed thi