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Teachers at two west London schools were out on strike on Tuesday of this week. NUT union members at Drayton Green primary school began a two-day strike on Tuesday. Those at Dormers Wells High School began a three-day strike.

Groups of pickets were out in force across Manchester Metropolitan University to begin a two-day strike on Tuesday.

Scottish college bosses are still dragging their feet in a long-running dispute over equal pay.

Parents, teachers, children and others are preparing to protest against school funding cuts in London. The demonstration is expected to be on Sunday 16 July.

The EIS education union has reacted angrily to the Scottish government’s plan to involve private firms in teacher training.

More than 1,000 people gathered in Mile End Park in east London this evening, Wednesday, in a fantastic show of opposition to school funding cuts.

Parents, children, teachers and others joined a nationwide day of action yesterday, Friday, against cuts to school funding.

Delegates gathered for the UCU union’s annual congress in Brighton last weekend. Members in the higher education sector conference defeated the union leadership by backing a motion calling for a “national industrial strategy”.

Anger at Theresa May's plan to slash billions from schools' budgets burst onto the streets

 College lecturers in Scotland held a victory rally on Saturday after their bosses "crumbled" on Friday in the face of an escalating national dispute.

Theresa May tried to pitch her manifesto as progressive with false promises on the NHS and schools. Nick Clark unpicks the attacks that they’re planning

The general election will influence debates at the UCU union’s annual congress in Brighton this weekend.