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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.

Government spending on education is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, according to a new study.

The Unite union is balloting its members in higher education for industrial action over pay.

Lecturers at Barnsley College were set to meet on Wednesday of this week to discuss the next moves in their ongoing dispute.

NUT and NASUWT union members struck at Kingswinford School in Dudley on Tuesday of this week, against plans to turn the school into an academy.

The lecturers’ UCU union executive voted last week to join the opposition to government plans to let private firms get their hands on higher education.

David Willetts held 12 meetings with private education firms before publishing the white paper.

University lecturers began a work to contract on Monday of this week in protest at attacks on their pensions.

More than 3,000 teachers and lecturers across Wales struck on Wednesday of last week to defend their pensions.

Lecturers at Barnsley College struck on Thursday of last week in defence of Graham Mustin, one of their UCU union branch’s joint secretaries.

Workers at Middlesex university, north London, struck on Tuesday of this week in protest at planned job cuts. The action involved workers in both the UCU and Unison unions at the university.