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11 April 2018
NEU conference: Teachers vote to strike over pay and workload
The National Education Union (NEU) conference (NUT section - the last ever before fully merged conference next year) took place in Brighton against the backdrop of a perfect storm building in our schools
11 April 2018
Child poverty to hit 5m by 2021 - strikes can stop the cuts
"My children have grey skin, poor teeth, poor hair, poor nails. They are thinner... when you see them with children of the same age who are from an affluent area, they just look tiny."
28 March 2018
NEU conference 2018: Strike to take on the Tories
The National Education Union (NEU) conference (NUT section) will see the union at a crossroads, writes James Kerr, Lewisham NEU.
28 March 2018
Southampton asks "What will you do to stop education cuts?"
Last year's general election saw a historic surge for Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity manifesto. A large part of that wave was the 800,000 voters who switched their vote on the question of education
28 March 2018
Campaign against academies boosted by victories
Teaching staff at three schools in Newham, east London, have been taking strike action
28 March 2018
For Whom the School Bell Tolls: Our kids or the Tories?
Like the NHS and council services, public state education in primary, secondary, special schools and colleges is facing a dire crisis
21 March 2018
Strikers and parents rally again in Newham against academies
Newham teachers and parents rallied again as Avenue Primary School took its tenth day of strike action on 15 January
21 March 2018
It's one world for the super-rich and another for the rest of us. Toffs tell debtors to hang and face sacking for bad behaviour; child poverty soars.
14 March 2018
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including Hinkley sit-in victory and Newham academies battle
28 February 2018
Newham: teaching workers and parents determined to halt academies
The mood at the rally against academisation was electric as 90 people from three striking schools crammed in after being on the picket lines
8 February 2018
Teachers strike again as anti-academy pressure mounts
Teachers hit back at privatisation with another solid strike
7 February 2018
GCSE grading game stresses out students - even more than before!
The government has implemented new GCSE rules and with them stress, and with them fear, and with them anxiety.
7 February 2018
Striking back against academies in Newham
It's been months since teachers at Avenue Primary school in Newham, east London, uncovered plans for the school to become an academy.
31 January 2018
Unite members employed by OCS working in Hackney schools have won a fantastic victory
31 January 2018
For a series that cricket fans look forward to for months, this year's Ashes was something of a disappointment - on the English side, at least. We lost 4-0, and were only saved from a 5-0 whitewash by a lifeless pitch ensuring a draw.
31 January 2018
Failing academy chain strips school assets - end academisation!
In businesses when cuts are made, they sell off their facilities and equipment in the interest of maintaining profits. Now that's what's happening with our schools.
17 January 2018
Hackney school cleaners strike
Unite the Union members working in six schools in Hackney will be striking to defend wages and year-round contracts
10 January 2018
Sweden: School strike against deportations
Before the seasonal holidays began in Sweden, an historic strike against the deportation of refugees was organised. On 12 December, at 12noon, school students across the country - from Boden in the north to Ystad in the south - took part.
10 January 2018
Teacher recruitment falls by a third - cut workload, not funding
Teachers throughout the country reacted with shock to the news that the number applying to train as teachers has dropped by 33%, according to Ucas figures. This is the fifth year the government has failed to meet its recruitment targets, and the largest drop for many years.
8 November 2017
Opposition to new academy school being built on Leeds playing fields
Leeds council should not just accept the diktats of the Tory government
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