21 July 2010
Education workers must teach Tories a lesson
TRADE UNIONS organising education workers, including NUT, NASUWT and UNISON, lobbied parliament on 19 July against the disgraceful cancelling of building and repair work to be carried out under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme and the undemocratic fast-tracking of the Con-Dems', writes Greg Maughan.
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Protest against academies in East London, photo Alison Hill |
16 June 2010
Comprehensive education under attack
Tory Education Secretary, Michael Gove, is rushing an Academies Bill through parliament. Around 600 secondary and 2,000 primary schools found 'outstanding' by Ofsted are being invited to fast track to academy status. Gove hopes that eventually all schools will become academies. This spells disaster for comprehensive education.
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10 June 2010
No to undemocratic academies in Waltham Forest
Public meeting to discuss a united response:
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26 May 2010
Unions must defend public services
THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) National Executive met just days after Cameron was finally confirmed as prime minister, writes Martin Powell-Davies, NUT executive member.
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28 April 2010
No trust
TEACHERS AT the Crest Boys Academy in Neasden, north London, took strike action on 21 April in protest at the school trust's decision to sack seven staff...
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21 April 2010
Vote to boycott SATs
The two main unions representing primary headteachers have both returned clear majorities in support of a boycott of this May's English and maths Key Stage 2 SATs tests for eleven year-olds, writes Martin Powell-Davies, Lewisham NUT.
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14 April 2010
NUT conference calls for 24-hour public sector strike
There are two key issues for NUT members - the need for a national ballot to combat excessive workload and united public sector action to defend jobs, pay and pensions, writes Martin Powell-Davies, newly elected to the NUT executive.
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Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies |
7 April 2010
NUT conference again calls for action on workload
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference, which took place in Liverpool over the Easter weekend, showed that the conditions teachers now face are similar to those of workers across the public sector where pay and conditions are being eaten away, writes Jane James.
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7 April 2010
'Free schools' or free-for-all?
THE LABOUR government and the Tory opposition have virtually identical policies on selling off schools, writes Derek McMillan.
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7 April 2010
Mass protests and strikes continue to shake Algeria
THE BEGINNING of 2010 has been marked by an intensification of struggles by the workers and poor of Algeria, writes Cedric Gerome, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
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