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Teachers at the NUT union conference in Liverpool have voted narrowly against striking on 26 June.

The most popular vote at NUT conference in Liverpool this weekend will be one of no confidence in Tory education secretary Michael Gove.

Over 500 members of the NUT teaching union marched on the Department of Education last night, Wednesday, through driving snow. They called on Tory education secretary Michael Gove to resign

The Academies Commission that reported last week was expected to be a whitewash. It was set up to help academies work better.

The NUT union’s national executive committee will vote on whether to call a one-day national strike in March on Thursday of next week.

Bosses at Halesowen College in the Black Country dismissed three lecturers on Friday of last week.

Tory education secretary Michael Gove has appointed academy sponsor and Tory donor John Nash as education minister.

David Willets, the Tories’ universities minister, claimed last week that white working class men need a special campaign to encourage them to go to university.

More than 50 UCU lecturers and supporters from other unions picketed three entrances of Halesowen College in the Black Country on the first day back on Monday of this week.

Dunston school Teachers at Dunston school in Chesterfield struck on 19 and 20 December over intrusive appraisals and monitoring. The action followed five days of strikes earlier in December.

Teachers across Britain ended last term by calling on their union leaders to organise national strikes to defend pay and conditions.

The national executive of the NUT teachers’ union met yesterday, Thursday, against the backdrop of Tory plans to scrap teachers’ national pay and give head teachers the power to determine pay.