Education Follow

United strikes by teachers next month can defend workers’ conditions and children’s education—and hit the government hard, writes Sadie Robinson

Educating Yorkshire looks at one head’s attempt to ‘turn pupils around’ with punishment. Leeds teacher Sally Kincaid fears that the Daily Mail will love it

The mainstream press focus around recent exam results doesn't consider the impact of government cuts to education funding and the deregulation of schools through Academies and Free schools argues Sara Tomlinson

Hundreds of thousands of students will find out their A-level results this week.

Teachers, parents and others are fighting new plans by Tory education secretary Michael Gove to grade children.

Lecturers at the University of Liverpool have begun a ballot for strikes to stop an unprecedented attack on their jobs.

The NUT teaching union was set to meet on Thursday of this week and confirm dates for a series of strikes to defend pay, pensions and conditions.

The government’s new primary school curriculum can only put children off learning.

Lecturers in the UCU union were set to strike at Lambeth College, south London, on Thursday of this week.

Teachers from two unions struck across the north west of England last week as part of a campaign against government attacks on education. Sadie Robinson reports from Liverpool

Sue Bannister, an NUT member, said workers needed to up the ante against the Tories.

The Tories have taken control of a north London school and handed it to a trust made up of profit-making firms—for free.