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This week lecturers at Goldsmiths College massively rejected management proposals to privatise the recruitment of teaching

On Friday of this week the UCU union will hold a conference of lecturers in higher education to discuss our 2009 pay claim.

New strike at Sinfin school NASUWT union members at the Sinfin community school in Derby began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week in their continuing campaign against plans to turn the school into an academy.

When education secretary Ed Balls announced the abolition of Key Stage 3 SATs examinations for 14 year olds this month virtually no one came to their defence.

The crisis of international capitalism will have a myriad of unforeseen consequences, one of which will be its impact on the privatisation of public services.

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Campaigners against academy schools in Sheffield are considering whether to challenge a "consultation ballot" that took place in the city over plans to turn Parkwood School into an academy.

There are just a few days of voting left in the NUT teachers’ union’s ballot for strike action over pay.

Teachers in the NUT union have less than two weeks to build the yes vote in their national ballot for strike action over pay.

School teachers in Derby and Bolton have been on strike this week against plans to turn their schools into academies.

The higher education (HE) sector of the UCU union meets on 7 November to discuss the pay claim that we will be submitting to our employers.

There was jubilation in secondary schools last week as the government announced it was scrapping Sats tests for 14 year olds in English, maths and science.