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NUT union branches and associations have passed motions calling on its leaders to name more strike dates.

Workers at London Metropolitan University were set to strike on Thursday to defend jobs, education and their union reps.

UCU union members at London Metropolitan University in north London have voted by two to one for strikes.

Rank and file teaching assistants (TAs) are organising to reject a “much improved” offer from Labour-controlled Durham County Council.

The Tory plan for new grammar schools in England is one of the first major announcements since Theresa May became prime minister.

Theresa May has confirmed that her Tory government’s first central policy will be to bring back grammar schools. Sadie Robinson talks to people who experienced the much-hated system first time round

The two biggest fights we face in schools are over spending cuts that threaten to wreck education, and ending primary Sats tests.

A strike ballot is on at London Metropolitan University to defend jobs, conditions and victimised union reps.

Some 2,500 support staff across 20 Scottish further education colleges walked out on Tuesday over pay. It was the Unison union’s first Scotland-wide college strike.

Further education (FE) support workers held a protest outside pay talks with Scotland’s college bosses in Glasgow last Thursday.

Anti-racists won a victory in the fight against the Tories’ Islamophobic “Prevent” agenda last week.

The Tories could open new grammar schools. The right wing press eagerly explained that this is part of Theresa May’s drive to boost “social mobility”.