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Management at London Metropolitan University wants to cut 70 percent of undergraduate courses and sack hundreds of staff.

Lecturers at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London protested on Wednesday of last week against cuts. Management said last week that it wants to cut 64 jobs.

Teachers in the NUT and NASUWT unions struck at Shorefields Technology College today, Wednesday, against plans to turn the school into an academy.

Striking at Sinfin Community School Teachers at Sinfin Community School in Derbyshire were on the picket lines on Wednesday and Thursday of last week to stop compulsory redundancies.

Students occupied London Metropolitan University against bosses’ plans to axe 70 percent of all the courses at the college. John Hughes, a sociology and international development student, told Socialist Worker, "Senior management have no respect for staff and students here.

UCU union members are balloting for strikes at South Tyneside College over jobs cuts and pay.

Teachers in the NUT union will hold a national strike ballot over the Tory assault on their pensions—and aim to ­coordinate action with other public sector unions.

Some 250 NUT delegates discussed "Where next after 26 March?" at what was the biggest Friday night fringe meeting at NUT conference in years.

Teachers in Glasgow met with EIS union leaders last week to discuss cuts to pay and conditions, which the union is urging members to accept.

Delegates at NUT conference voted unanimously to fight plans to turn schools into academies and free schools. The debate showed the understanding among teachers that these schools are about turning schools into businesses – and the widespread determination to resist.

The Blair Peach award was given out for the first time at this year’s NUT conference. Fittingly, the award was made on the 32nd anniversary of Blair’s death, on Saturday 23 April.

Teachers crammed into an Education for Liberation fringe meeting organised by the Socialist Teachers Alliance on Saturday.