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Teachers at the Islington Arts and Media School in north London struck on Wednesday of last week.

Action against academy schools is snowballing.

Lecturers at Leeds College of Building have voted by 77 percent for strikes over attacks on jobs and pay.

Ealing Council has stepped back from consideration of any library closures.

The Tories want to tear up state education—but our movement can stop them.

Teachers at two Coventry schools were on strike last week opposing the council’s plans to turn their schools into academies.

Lecturers at Barnsley College were set to strike on Friday of this week to stop compulsory redundancies. The UCU union members voted for strikes by 87 percent.

UCU union members in further education colleges are to ballot on a proposed deal on the annual fees for compulsory membership of the Institute for Learning.

Delegates to the AGM of the EIS, Scotland’s largest teaching trade union, gathered in Perth last week.

The annual NUT union’s young teachers’ conference was the biggest yet—its capacity of 150 was oversubscribed. It showed unmistakeable signs that the union is renewing itself through its pensions campaign, with many newly qualified teachers already school union reps.

Teachers at the Islington Arts and Media School in north London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week. They are fighting compulsory redundancies. The NUT union members struck against the cuts last month. They backed strikes by 90 percent in a ballot.

At this year’s UCU union congress Sally Hunt, the general secretary, launched her bid for re-election.