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The recession is raising major concerns in all areas of government policy. The adult education sector is no exception. Over the past two years 1.5 million publicly funded adult learner places have been cut. This has particularly affected those who are disabled, the elderly, second language speakers (Esol) and working class students in general.

An angry protest by school students in Carlisle last week has highlighted the failures of the government’s city academies programme.

Over 200 angry parents demonstrated outside Glasgow City Chambers on Friday of last week.

NUT union members at five schools in Croydon, south London, struck on Tuesday of this week over plans to close their schools and replace them with academies.

Seven teachers in the NUT union took part in a solid three-day strike at Joseph Locke primary school in Barnsley last week.

Support is growing for suspended NUT union rep and anti-academy campaigner Mac Andrassy.

The UCU lecturers’ union’s "IOU" pay implementation campaign will escalate on 5 February when 11 colleges will be taking strike action.

Workers at London Metropolitan university are fighting a serious attack on jobs after management announced it wants to lose 330 full-time equivalent jobs.

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at 11 colleges have voted to strike on Thursday 5 February.

The UCU lecturers union will begin electing new national officers and members for its national executive committee at the beginning of February.

Teachers in the NUT union at Joseph Locke primary school in Barnsley are to strike for three days this week in solidarity with a member who faces a pay cut of £4,000.

NUT teachers’ union rep and leading anti-academy campaigner Mac Andrassy was suspended from his job at Counthill school in Oldham on Wednesday of last week on a charge of gross misconduct.