Schools Follow

Teachers at Small Heath School in Birmingham struck on Tuesday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.

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Chalon-sur-Saone council in southern France voted last week to ban schools from providing alternative meals for children who don’t eat pork. Anti-racists protested outside.

Muslim school pupils, teachers and academics are increasingly being treated as a threat, says?Judith Orr

Primary school children face increasing racial profiling, according to a new report. 

Teachers at Winterbourne International Academy (WIA) held a massive picket on Thursday of last week during a one-day walkout.

Bradford College UCU members struck on Tuesday of last week against compulsory redundancies. Picket lines began at 7am and at their peak there were 70 people.

Workers at three schools in Lewisham, south east London, were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday of next week. 

Strikers shut Small Heath school in Birmingham on Wednesday of last week in protest at plans to turn it into an academy. The walkout involved ATL, NASUWT and NUT union members.

There’s a nasty agenda behind the Tories’ plans to test children as young as four. They will set children and schools up for failure while robbing vital education funds to give to big firms. But there is resistance, writes Sadie Robinson

Teachers in the NUT union have backed a boycott of "baseline tests" that the Tories want to force onto four year olds.

Campaigners against academies in Lewisham, south east London, were buoyed by the news that Frankie Sulke, council director for children and young people, will resign her post in the summer.