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Headteachers in primary schools across Britain have begun a boycott of the hated Sats tests.

The latest battle against cuts in higher education kicked off last week when management at Middlesex University in north London announced plans to shut down the university's philosophy department.

Around 100 workers and students protested at Dundee University on Monday against job cuts.

Lecturers shut Northumberland College when they struck on Thursday of last week.

Teachers at Crest Boys Academy in Neasden, north west London, struck for one day on Wednesday of last week against seven redundancies.

The fightback against cuts in pay, jobs and services continues as the bosses, backed by the government, attempt to make workers pay for their crisis.

Lecturers at King’s College have planned strikes for 5 May and election day.

Workers at eleven London colleges are balloting for strikes to save jobs.

Bradford College in Yorkshire is pushing ahead with job cuts.

A major public sector union’s annual conference has sent out a defiant message against the growing clamour from mainstream political parties for savage cuts.

As we head into the general election campaign it's hard to put a cigarette paper between the education policies of the three main parties. They all offer the same diet of privatisation and cuts.

I put myself forward as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Tusc) candidate for Tottenham because cuts in my college are a microcosm of the cuts threatened by all the main parties.