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Teachers at five schools in Tamworth, Staffordshire, have voted to take strike action against a planned academy.

Around 200 students and lecturers marched through Liverpool city centre last Saturday against planned cuts at universities in the city.

Lecturers in universities across Britain are taking part in a critical ballot that centres on defending education and fighting job cuts.

Chris Woodhead, the former head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate, says middle class children have better genes than those from working class homes.

Lecturers at London Metropolitan university were to strike on Thursday of this week in protest at planned job cuts.

A concerted campaign by UCU and Unison union members has averted the threat of major job losses at Doncaster college.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) in higher education have received ballot papers asking them to vote for strike action and action short of a strike.

Despite the shameful vote by the Labour-controlled council in Glasgow to close 22 primary and nursery schools, parents and campaigners vowed to continue the fight to defend their children’s education and communities.

Glasgow City Council voted to close 22 schools and nurseries across the city on Thursday of last week.

United action by teachers and cleaners at Lister school in Newham, east London, has won the reinstatement of Lorraine Mngadi, an activist in the Unison union.

Lecturers in the UCU union in universities across Britain will begin balloting for industrial action over job cuts this week. The ballot follows a refusal by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to reach a national agreement with the unions to avoid redundancies in higher education.

Most teachers returned to work this week and did so facing a series of important