The union is seeking agreements with head teachers to minimise disruption to exam students during the strike, but concerns remain over cuts to school funding and staffing
The council leader says, "The Islands Forum is a superb opportunity to establish the challenges for our islands, and continue my engagement with government ministers and civil servants to find the right steps to address our issues"
"Expecting schools to fund any pay offer without extra government funding would lead to fewer resources and redundancies within an already overstretched system in the coming year," says Peter Shreeve
The NEU say that to accept this offer would ensure nothing happens to address the decades of below-inflation pay increases making them the worst paid teachers in the UK
This reader believes that the very fact a single point of access to all our NHS records will be in the hands of a private company should be setting alarm bells ringing all over the country