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HEAD teachers in Jersey are to go on strike for the first time ever next week, joining colleagues in an unprecedented co-ordinated day of action involving members of all three teaching unions.

It was announced yesterday by the NASUWT, NEU and NAHT that strike action by both teachers and headteachers would be taking place in the opening weeks of the new school term: on 12 September, 18 October, and 19 October.

The announcement marks the latest development in an increasingly bitter pay dispute between the government and teachers.

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