Schools
17 November 2015
Teachers in the NUT, NASUWT and ATL unions at Small Heath School in Birmingham were set to strike on Wednesday of next week.
10 November 2015
Planned strikes this week at St Wilfrid’s Catholic High School suspended, Derbyshire school support staff protest council cuts and teachers plan parliament lobby.
27 October 2015
An academy chain paid over £800,000 in two years to “consulting” companies that its founders or trustees had major financial interests in.
20 October 2015
Teachers at Small Heath School in Birmingham struck on Tuesday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.
13 October 2015
Birmingham strike to stop academy, Open University protests, students defend grants, lobby to defend Esol, occupation at Soas
06 October 2015
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.
29 September 2015
Muslim school pupils, teachers and academics are increasingly being treated as a threat, says?Judith Orr
29 September 2015
Primary school children face increasing racial profiling, according to a new report.
15 September 2015
Teachers at Winterbourne International Academy (WIA) held a massive picket on Thursday of last week during a one-day walkout.
07 July 2015
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.
26 May 2015
Workers at three schools in Lewisham, south east London, were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday of next week.
19 May 2015
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.
14 April 2015
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
06 April 2015
Teachers in the NUT union have backed a boycott of "baseline tests" that the Tories want to force onto four year olds.
31 March 2015
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.
18 March 2015
Teachers at St Andrews and St Francis School in Brent struck today, Wednesday, against plans to turn the school into an academy.
10 March 2015
Also: Four day strike called at Barnsley College; ballot against sackings at University of Salford
24 February 2015
Teachers at four schools in Lewisham, south east London, are set to strike on Thursday of next week.
17 February 2015
NUT union members in four schools in Lewisham, south London, struck against the threat of academy status on Thursday of last week.
17 February 2015
Teachers at B6 sixth form college in Hackney, east London, struck on Wednesday of last week over workload issues.