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A racist witch hunt is underway in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The Sunday Times claims Muslims are trying to take over state schools.

Six education unions have denounced Tory cuts to school funding as a “national scandal”.

Lords voted against the government yesterday, Monday, to support an amendment to the Higher Education and Research Bill.

Teaching assistants (TAs) in Derby have called six days of strikes in their battle against a 25 percent pay cut.

College bosses in Scotland have admitted defeat and agreed to pay further education support staff the same flat rate pay rise won by lecturers earlier this year.

County Durham teaching assistants are battling against the odds—and pushing their union officials—to take the fight to a Labour council trying to slash their pay. Raymie Kiernan spoke to the women leading the fight

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Students and lecturers marched together in central London today, Saturday, in defence of education.

Teachers marched through central London on Thursday of last week in protest at cuts to education funding.

Lecturers at Edinburgh College have voted to strike over the unjustified sacking of a colleague and the victimisation of union rep Penny Gower who represented him.

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Two thousand teaching assistants (TAs) walked out of schools across County Durham on Tuesday for the first day of their 48-hour strike against huge pay cuts.