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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
4 April 2018
Teachers vote to ballot for strike to win 5% raise
Members of the National Education Union have voted to ballot for strikes over pay at their conference in Brighton
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
22 March 2018
School strikes against academy management
"Four heads, five deputies and five Sendcos have gone over the last two years"
21 March 2018
West Virginia teachers' strike victory
Militant struggle rolls back bosses' anti-worker offensive: Striking teachers in the Republican-controlled US state of West Virginia have won a significant pay rise
23 February 2018
Lecturers strike around country in defence of pensions
UCU members in 61 universities have started their 14 days of strike action
8 February 2018
Teachers strike again as anti-academy pressure mounts
Teachers hit back at privatisation with another solid strike
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
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.
10 January 2018
Newham academy strikes spread to Cumberland school
"Why would we want more privatisation?!" This is how the National Education Union (NEU) rep at Cumberland school in Newham, East London, closed the picket line meeting to stop the school becoming an academy.
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.
13 December 2017
Strike action at Outside Avenue primary school in Newham, east London, against turning the school into an academy continues on 14 December following a mass picket of 80 teachers, parents and children during the previous strike on 29 November
6 December 2017
School staff strike against privatisation
Outside Avenue Primary School parents and the community stood with school staff striking against becoming an academy on 29 November
6 December 2017
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) went on strike today (6.12.17) at Westways primary school in Sheffield
1 November 2017
Teachers, students and parents demand an end to the schools funding crisis
Over 1,000 teachers, staff, parents and students put the question to MPs on 24 October: "What are you going to do to end the school funding crisis?"
18 October 2017
Schools "can't go any further" - stop the cuts: set deficit budgets now
'Southampton Fair Funding for All Schools' brought teachers, students, TAs, heads and parents onto the streets on 14 October to protest against the growing crisis in Southampton schools. The action took place ahead of the national lobby of MPs at Westminster on 24 October, which the campaign has built for.
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
30 August 2017
School spend is behind eastern Europe
UK education spending is behind many eastern European countries, according to EU figures
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