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Lecturers at London Metropolitan University returned to work this week to face a critical ballot for action over job cuts.

Lecturers and students at Salford University are fighting plans by management to push through 150 job cuts.

The NUT teachers’ union held its annual conference in Cardiff last weekend amid growing economic crisis and increasing threats to public sector spending.

Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference in Cardiff have voted unanimously for a boycott of the hated Sats tests next year – if the government refuses to abolish them.

Delegates to the NUT union’s annual conference this weekend will meet at a time of crisis that is impacting on their jobs, pay and pensions.

The UCU and Unison unions at London Metropolitan University are set to ballot for industrial action against planned job cuts.

Anti-academy campaigners won a victory this week when Northampton council postponed plans to transform the Unity College secondary school into an academy.

Parents in Glasgow stepped up their fight against school closures by occupying two primary schools on Friday of last week.

A recent BBC poll of 53 university vice-chancellors reveals that two thirds want the top-up fee cap to be increased from the current £3,000.

London Metropolitan University is facing massive funding cuts after an audit by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) discovered that university management had been submitting inaccurate data.

Head goes after strike threat An attempt to take schools out of community control has run into problems in Waltham Forest in east London.