Education Follow

Tory attacks on education, and resistance to them, reflect a sharp debate about what education should be for.

Tens of thousands of students and lecturers marching on parliament- rolling update

The Tories have scrapped the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB), set up to negotiate pay and conditions for around 500,000 workers in England.

Lord Browne's recommendation of unlimited tuition fees and the introduction of the free market into universities constitutes a devastating assault on access to education by working class people. Mark Bergfeld considers the effects of the proposals and how they can be stopped.

Since the passing of the Academies Act in July 2010 a new wave of privatisation has been unleashed on our schools. Conversion of outstanding schools to academies or the creation of new "free" schools is allowing edubusiness to expand rapidly.

The Tory cuts are tearing into the futures of young people.

The Tory plan to increase tuition fees is a vicious assault on students, education and working people.

There is a crucial conference coming up that will build and coordinate resistance to education cuts.

Bosses at "Cambridge Education @ Islington" in north London sent redundancy notices to 30 central services workers last week.

UCU union members are angry at a recent decision by the union’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) to postpone a ballot on jobs and pay.

The decision by the Higher Education Committee (HEC) of the University and College Union (UCU) to postpone balloting over jobs and pay was a serious error.

Teachers in the NUT union at St Aloysius school in Islington, north London, were set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week.