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Morale at picket lines was high at Sunderland College on Thursday of last week, as lecturers struck against pay cuts and redundancies.

The impact of austerity on education will dominate debates at the annual general meeting of Scotland’s EIS teachers union in Dundee this week.

Teachers at Alperton Community School in Brent, west London, struck on Thursday of last week against plans to turn the school into a privatised academy.

Striking lecturers at Chesterfield College won enormous support when they walked out this week against cuts.

Teachers at Sussex Downs College in Eastbourne struck on Thursday of last week against redundancies.

Around 50 postgraduate students gathered for the "What is the Future for Young Academics" conference in London last Saturday. It was backed by the London region of the UCU union.

Lecturers at the University of Salford are balloting for strikes to stop redundancies.

Parents and children occupied one of Lord Harris’s Carpetright shops last Saturday in protest at his plans to take over schools in Haringey, north London. Around 30 people joined the protest, forcing the shop to close.

Teachers at Kimberley School in Nottinghamshire walked out on Tuesday of this week over plans to turn their school into an academy.

Teachers at a north London school took part in the first strike in Britain against a forced academy this week. The NUT union members at Downhills Primary School in Haringey walked out on Tuesday.

Lecturers at Sussex Downs College in Eastbourne were set to strike on Thursday of this week against redundancies.

Staff at Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow, east London, had been repeatedly told that striking wouldn’t change a thing.