The McCormac report into "teaching professionalism" marks a fresh attack on teachers in Scotland. It was commissioned by the SNP government and COSLA, the organising body for Scottish councils.
Talks are due to start between the UCU union and the employers this month over proposed changes to university lecturers’ USS pension scheme.
Over 80 activists attended the Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) national conference last Saturday.
The British National Party tried to hold its annual conference in secret in Wavertree, Liverpool.
Two men were hurt in an attack on a gay bar in Leicester on Monday of last week.
The Department for Work and Pensions announced the closure of 19 job centres across Britain on Friday of last week after a period of consultation. They originally proposed closing 22 centres.
The row over attempts to remove London's main Occupy camp intensified as the dean of St Paul's, Graeme Knowles, resigned on Monday afternoon. The Occupy the Stock Exchange camp outside St Paul's Cathedral is still going strong, but now faces legal proceedings to evict it.
The racist English Defence League (EDL) suffered a disastrous day this weekend, on Saturday.
Almost seventy thousand passengers in Australia and 22,000 around the world were stranded last Saturday when Qantas grounded its planes and locked out its workers.
Police armed with machine guns raided a Kurdish tent at the Occupy protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral tonight, Thursday.
Teachers and lecturers took part in a mass lobby of MPs today, Wednesday, to demand that they support decent public sector pensions.
Electricians fighting attempts to tear up their terms and conditions marched, blocked roads and construction sites and occupied one site, this morning, Wednesday.
