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The Tories want to destroy comprehensive education, weaken education unions and put children at the mercy of private, unaccountable groups. And they want to use billions of pounds of our money to do it.

University lecturers have voted for strikes. Some will strike in the week before 26 March.

Higher education in Scotland will remain free after the Scottish government elections in May—whoever wins.

Lecturers at Dundee University struck on Tuesday of this week over compulsory redundancies.

Teachers at John Port school in Etwall, Derbyshire, struck on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

TEACHERS fighting job losses led a lively march through Rotherham, South Yorkshire, last Saturday. The protest was against cuts to public services.

A disciplinary hearing for victimised teacher Sue Caldwell has been postponed. It was due to take place on Friday but has been rescheduled for 23 March.

University lecturers across Britain have voted for strikes to defend their jobs, pay and pensions.

Industrial action came a step closer today, Tuesday, as Scotland’s biggest teachers’ union announced that it would ballot its members over proposals to impose a two-year pay freeze and changes to working conditions.

NUT, NASUWT, ATL and Unison union members at Danescourt Primary School in Cardiff struck on Thursday of last week over the suspension of four workers by the school’s headteacher.

Lecturers in further and higher education are holding national strike ballots to defend jobs, pay and pensions.

Specialist teachers in Oldham struck on Tuesday of last week against plans to axe their jobs. The teachers work with children who move to Britain with little or no English.