Drivers at First Bus in Leeds have voted for strikes over pay.
Stagecoach bus drivers in Rotherham have suspended strike action for talks after staging an angry walkout on Monday of last week in their fight over low pay.
Soas university Palestine Society and the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine is holding an important meeting on Israel, the Palestinians and apartheid – the case for sanctions and boycott this Friday 4 December, 7pm, Khalili lecture hall at Soas in central London.
UCU union members in further education colleges will receive ballot papers from 11 December as the union begins a vote over pay.
Lecturers in the UCU union at Barnsley college have suspended planned strike action after college management agreed to negotiate over proposed changes to job descriptions that would lower lecturers’ grades and pay.
A damning report into the recording of student numbers at London Metropolitan University has found that management knew of incorrect data regarding student numbers as early as 2004.
Protesters gathered outside the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust conference on Thursday of last week to expose the continued sell off of schools.
Campaigners celebrated this week after plans to turn Norlington School for Boys in Waltham Forest, east London, into a private Trust school were deferred indefinitely.
Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions at Weston Favell school in Northampton are set to strike on Thursday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.
Activists in Birmingham university’s "Save Our Sociology" campaign led a noisy march past the university’s council chamber on Thursday of last week.
Mikey Powell died in police custody because of the way he was restrained, a medical expert told the ongoing inquest into the Birmingham man’s death.
Labour minister Peter Mandelson wants to turn universities into businesses – and he has chosen to start at Leeds university. Vice‑chancellor Michael Arthur is pushing it through.
