A Charter for Teachers
A Teacher's Charter for improved conditions of
service:
The NUT is campaigning for:
- Permanent contracts for all teachers. No use of
fixed-term contracts as probation
- Time within 1265 hours for all work generated by the
National Curriculum
- No additional responsibilities without extra
increments
- Mandatory limits on class size
- No cover after the first day of absence
- A minimum of 20% non-contact time for all
teachers
- A break in every session which exceeds 2
hours
- Teachers should be expected to attend no more than
one meeting a week after school
- Individual teachers shall be able to use 3 INSET
days for their own professional development
- The right to at least 2 days funded INSET per year,
and the right to one term's secondment after 7 years.
- The right to prioritise attendance at Union meetings
on one day in the week