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18 January 2012
Save community schools - no to academies
Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a 'forced academy', writes a Haringey Socialist Party member.
Strikers marching through London on 30 November 2011, photo Senan
18 January 2012
Cameron's Con-Dem coalition wants workers to pay for the bosses' economic crisis. This millionaires' government wants to cut workers' jobs, pay and conditions such as pensions. In the public sector...
18 January 2012
Ofsted: "requires improvement"
Ofsted, the body responsible for inspecting schools, wants to toughen the language of inspections in England - changing the "satisfactory" rating to "requires improvement", writes Derek McMillan, Mid-Sussex Socialist Party.
11 January 2012
Haringey - Save community schools, No to academies
Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a 'forced academy'
14 December 2011
Bullying has always been a problem in schools. As the commercialisation of education accelerates, however, it is often the teachers on the receiving end - from senior management, writes Manny Thain, East London Socialist Party.
9 December 2011
Job cull at the Oasis Academy, Salford
The only thing that Santa is bringing the staff at the Oasis Academy in Salford, is P45s. Thirteen staff are to lose their jobs this Christmas
23 November 2011
Pension mythbuster: Teachers' union NUT has revealed that £46.4 billion more has been paid into the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) since its foundation in 1923, than has been paid out
2 November 2011
Pension talks: Opponent wavers, now's the time to push ahead with action!
Martin Powell-Davies, an executive member of the NUT and a Socialist Party member, commented on his blog on the government concessions on pensions. [Also see the NSSN statement: Reject the government's new pension offer - all out together on N30!]
26 October 2011
Free schools - Freedom to privatise education
In September, the first 24 of the Coalition's new 'free schools' opened. Tory schools minister Michael Gove claims that they will end a 'state monopoly' in education and give 'freedom' to parents...
28 September 2011
A Times Educational Supplement survey received massive publicity when it showed 49% of parents supporting corporal punishment in schools, writes Derek McMillan.
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