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The Tories are privatising schools in the name of improving education. But their rhetoric has fallen apart.

Anger was on display at the Unison union’s 200-strong higher education conference earlier this month.

Members of the Scottish EIS teachers union are voting to elect their vice president. In recent years no-one has challenged the leadership candidate.

Sally Hunt was re-elected general secretary of the UCU lecturers’ union last week by a comfortable margin.

Sixth form college teachers in the NUT union outside London are set to strike for half a day on Thursday of next week over funding cuts and pay.

Biennial elections for the National Union of Teachers national executive run from 7 March to 28 March.

Teachers have challenged Tory education secretary Michael Gove to visit the borough of Haringey, north London.

Elections for the national executive committee and national officer positions in the UCU union close on Thursday.

A monster meeting took place in a west London school last night (Tuesday) after a threat to force it to become an academy.

Teachers in London sixth form colleges were set to strike and lobby parliament on Thursday of this week.

Governors at a north London primary school say they have been bullied into accepting academy status.

Elections for the UCU national executive committee and national officer positions will end on Thursday of next week. UCU Left is backing Mark Campbell for general secretary.