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16 December 2020
Strikes are how to fight for state education
Two London strikes have the future of publicly owned and run education at their heart
6 September 2017
Schools and teaching: A perfect storm of cuts, underfunding, excessive workloads and low pay
Schools return this week for a new academic year with the usual mix of emotions but with the prospect of budget cuts lingering in the background
12 April 2017
Cuts leave schools unable to meet basic needs
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has proposed to fund free school meals for all primary school children by adding VAT tax on private education fees.
26 October 2016
Academies mired in debt and corruption
Fight for publicly run schooling: The new Tory government under Theresa May will continue converting state schools to 'academy' status and setting up new 'free schools'.
31 August 2016
Join the student fightback to end education cuts and austerity
As the new academic term begins, students at schools, college and universities around the country face a year of important struggles. Here two young people comment on some of the difficulties facing working class students.
10 August 2016
Theresa May has announced she wants to lift the ban on selective secondary schools, a measure she states will increase social mobility. This claim could not be further from the truth.
30 March 2016
Academy chain axed in head's pay scandal
The poster boy for the 'academy' system has fallen from grace, in a scandal which exposes the dangers of Tory backdoor privatisation plans, writes Ted Woodley, Birmingham Central Socialist Party.
27 January 2016
Teaching: a perfect storm is brewing
A lack of school places, teacher shortage and cuts are compounding existing issues related to workload.
1 April 2015
Education will be a vital question on people's minds in the general election and local elections on 7 May. But most voters will have very different priorities from the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government
11 March 2015
No such thing as a 'free' school: Cameron's election campaign promises that the Tories will open hundreds of new 'free schools' in England. But when did the Tories ever give away anything free, except to their friends in big business?
4 February 2015
Uncaring: Labour and Tory/Lib Dem governments have slashed spending on elderly care by 20% over the last decade
'Save Sedgefield' demo, 12 December 2014
7 January 2015
The battle for Sedgehill school
No to Academies!: Parents, teachers and school students in Lewisham are angry. Labour-run Lewisham council in south London plans to dismiss the governors and headteacher at Sedgehill school and impose an 'interim executive
11 June 2014
'Trojan Horse': who is attacking education?
Birmingham schools: For the last two months, news headlines have been dominated by the so-called 'Trojan Horse' story
14 May 2014
Gove robs education budget to fund 'Free Schools'
Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove is an easy target for comedians, for example, David Schneider's tweet: "Free Schools to be renamed £400m-From-Budget-For-Other-Kids-Schools"
12 February 2014
The next NUT national strike will be on Wednesday 26 March. Every NUT rep needs to build for a mass show of strength to oppose Gove's attacks
Members of the teachers' union NUT on the 26 March TUC demonstration, photo Suzanne Beishon
16 October 2013
Why are our schools in crisis?
Headlines about the recent education report from the OECD blared that a quarter of adults in England have maths skills no better than those of a ten year old
29 May 2013
This is what's 'not to like' about Free Schools, Boris
Tory London mayor Boris Johnson, writing in the London Evening Standard, attempted to portray opposition to 'Free Schools' as some kind of 'left-wing conspiracy', writes Martin Powell-Davies, National Union of Teachers executive (personal capacity).
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