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Bosses have launched a swingeing attack on jobs and courses at Keele university. They want to axe 38 out of 67 academic staff in the Economics and Management Studies School to create a smaller "corporate style" business school.

New Labour’s Academies programme has come under fire again after it was discovered that academies in Southwark, south London, had introduced contracts halving paid maternity leave.

The UCU lecturers’ union has attacked university employers for "blighting" higher education by putting the majority of new workers on temporary rather than permanent contracts.

Some 400 public sector workers attended a rally for decent pay on Thursday of last week.

Teachers in the NUT union are likely to ballot for action over pay in January, and not December, as originally planned.

Teachers in Liverpool are threatening to walk out if their pay demands are not met. Over 100 teachers across the city are expected to protest on Thursday of this week against Brown’s pay freeze, and are warning that a ballot for strike action could begin in the new year.

Last week there were two public meetings to discuss new secondary schools planned for south London.

Members of the NUT teachers’ union at Pimlico School in Westminster, London were on strike on Tuesday of this week against their lunch break being cut.

The result of the recent National Union of Teachers (NUT) election was announced at the end of last week.

On the surface of it, giving all young people not only the right but the obligation to stay on in education or training until 18 could be seen as the liberal educationalist’s dream.

Members of the national executive of the University and College Lecturers Union (UCU) in further education met last week to discuss action over pay.

Islington’s Lib Dem council leader James Kempton is determined to close Islington Green school in north London and reopen it as an academy.