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Some 120 students from across Britain came to the national Another Education is Possible conference in London last Saturday.

New Labour is facing a crisis in its education policies. Following widespread dissatisfaction from parents and teachers, and alienation and unhappiness among children, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation asked professor Robin Alexander to coordinate a comprehensive study into primary school education.

Stirling university Over 200 people protested against job cuts at Stirling university on Tuesday of last week.

Members of the EIS teaching union and the UCU lecturers’ union turned out at the Employment Tribunal offices in Edinburgh to demonstrate their support for victimised safety rep, Penny Gower.

The campaign to stop an estimated 200 redundancies at the University of the Arts in London took a major step forward last week.

More than 50 people attended a meeting hosted by Goldsmiths students’ union on Tuesday of last week to oppose the plan for Goldsmiths university to be part of a proposal to form a Trust with two local secondary schools and a sixth form college.

The NUT teachers’ union is to hold an indicative ballot in November over whether to boycott the hated Sats tests.

Thousands of further education lecturers in the UCU union will be taking part in a national ballot over pay after rejecting a 1.5 percent pay offer.

Lecturers at Stoke-on-Trent College struck on Thursday of last week against the scrapping of the physics department and dyslexia team at the college, which would result in the loss of six jobs.

Workers and students protested at University College London (UCL) on Wednesday of last week against plans for budget cuts which could mean the loss of up to 400 jobs.

The long running dispute at Barnsley College over the college management’s decision to employ more associate teachers and other similar grades, instead of lecturers, is set to escalate.

Workers at London Metropolitan University are set to strike on Thursday and Friday of this week against planned cuts that would slash up to a quarter of the jobs at the university. Management also plan to close the last on-campus student nursery.