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Tory education secretary Michael Gove plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey, north London, to become an academy.

Some 30 teachers in the NUT union picketed outside Kimberley School, Nottinghamshire, when they struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Workers at Downhills Primary School in north London struck on Tuesday of this week against government plans to privatise it.

Campaigners against academies won two victories last week.

The NUT teaching union will ballot members for action over pensions, pay and workload from Monday of next week.

Trade unionists have launched a campaign to defend union activist and lecturer Christine Vie.

The UCU union held further and higher education sector conferences on Friday of last week before its main conference began on Saturday. Delegates voted resoundingly for action to defend their pay, jobs, pensions and conditions.

Around 60 parents, staff, pupils and local people attended a loud and lively lobby of a governors’ meeting at Worthing High School in West Sussex last week.

Amid all the Leveson fuss, Tory education secretary Michael Gove admitted that he thinks it’s OK for schools to be run for profit last week.

The ability of a union to defend its members ultimately rests on its ability to organise collective industrial action.

Debates on lecturers’ USS pension scheme in the pre-1992 universities, and on our 2012-13 pay claim will be central to the higher education sector conference.

The Further education sector conference agenda reflects the diversity of attacks on "second chance" education.