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The government estimates that 40 percent of student loans won’t be repaid. The figure gives the lie to the idea that students leave university and head into well-paid jobs.

Some 60 teachers and students attended the first seminar of the Defend School History campaign last Saturday.

Bosses at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan) in Preston have abandoned plans to privatise the institution after fierce protests from staff and students. 

Over 40,000 teachers converged on the Danish capital Copenhagen on Thursday of last week in a magnificent demonstration of defiance against a savage employers’ offensive.

Teachers in Liverpool and Manchester are gearing up for rallies as part of a joint union campaign to defend their pay, pensions and conditions.

Students at Sussex university are taking part in a week of action against the privatisation of staff posts and the victimisation of student protesters. 

Nursery nurses in Swansea schools held a protest outside County Hall last week over the loss of thousands of pounds from their pay.

Teachers in the north west of England were set to join a march and rally in memory of Lucy Meadows this Saturday.

Some two million school children are now taught in academies, new figures reveal.

Council cuts could soon threaten vital services such as free school meals, a thinktank has warned.

The key debate at this year's NUT union conference was how to take on the Tories.

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