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The government's plans to privatise education are mired in financial scandal and under pressure from campaigns by teaching staff, parents and local authorities.

Nurses at a supported living service in Doncaster have voted for a seven-day strike against attacks on their pay and conditions.

Hundreds of people went without power for five days or more following storms in Wales last week.

Post workers in the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have accepted an agreement reached with Royal Mail bosses.

Students held a national week of action against the privatisation of student loans last week.

Up to 350 students joined a demonstration at the University of Birmingham under the banner of free education on Wednesday of last week.

After two prisons have had “disturbances” already this year, Sadie Robinson looks at how privatisation is driving prisoners’ conditions down even further

Up to 100,000 rail workers in South Korea struck for three weeks last month against government plans for running a new bullet train service. 

The last few weeks of the autumn term at universities saw a rise in student protest and resistance to austerity, prompting a draconian crackdown by university managements and the police. The driving force behind the protests is a growing opposition to the privatisation of higher education, part of wider Tory attacks on the whole public...

Five students have been suspended from Sussex University after taking part in the occupation there.

The government sold a chunk of student loans for less than 20 percent of its value to consortium Erudio Student Loans on Monday of this week.

Tuition fees and the scrapping of grants have generated £40 billion of student debt—and it is growing.