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The National Education Union (NEU) has grown by 34,000 new members in 11 days following a ballot announcement, with many based on the Isle of Wight supporting the upcoming day of action
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Peter Shreeve said, "We wanted to listen to the concerns of these staff and found amazing similarity to those of education support staff and teachers. Frustration that they cannot do the job that they love, for which they trained"
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Peter Shreeve says the "Government has known about staff shortages and its impact on workload for years", but that "it’s not too late for positive discussion"
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The education union also says that two thirds of teachers in state schools (67 per cent) think the attainment gap will widen at their school. A concern voiced by many Island teachers working with high numbers of SEND pupils
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Many schools on the Isle of Wight will be seeing cuts to per pupil funding in real terms in the coming year. News OnTheWight has the details
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Assistant District Secretary of the National Education Union, Peter Shreeve, shares this report from an intensive six-day visit to Cuba
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A timetable for a formal ballot and potential dates of strike action will be announced in the coming week
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“The current cost of living crisis is the most serious attack on living standards for many decades, with huge numbers of people facing an erosion of living standards on a scale not seen for at least 50 years," says Mark Chiverton of UNISON
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Peter Shreeve, Assistant District Secretary of the National Education Union shares his thoughts on where he believes the new Prime Minister should be focusing her attention, including by creating positive change to benefit the education system as a whole and to take “bold” urgent steps to end child poverty
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In the light of more Isle of Wight schools looking to become academies, Peter Shreeve shares some facts about whether they are effective at improving educational outcomes
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With already higher than national averages, the Isle of Wight has seen a further rise in the number of pupils requiring SEN support
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The Isle of Wight's Peter Shreeve, who is Assistant District Secretary of the National Education Union, proposed a motion exploring the impact of poverty on coastal education
