Schools
School students organise powerful anti-racist revolt
21 October 2020Students at Nonsuch High School For Girls in Cheam, west of London, have launched a fight against racism in their school. Their committed protests have included an 800-strong demonstration at the school.
Union backs two-week shutdown of secondaries
19 October 2020The infection rate among secondary school pupils rose by more than in any other age group since September.
Coronavirus cases soar after Tories’ new failures over testing
05 October 2020Official cases of coronavirus in Britain shot up last weekend after a failure in the Tories’ test and trace system.
Damning report exposes racist school discipline measures
03 October 2020An Institute of Race Relations report published last week showed how school sets up poorer black boys in particular for a life of exclusion.
A lockdown on dissent
29 September 2020There was justified anger from the left in response to new government teaching guidelines that ban anti-capitalist teaching materials from classrooms.
Students to strike for the climate
21 September 2020School strikers around the world were set to take action this Friday to demand that governments take the climate emergency seriously
LETTERS—Grouse shooting rule shows what the elite are about
18 September 2020As if we need yet another example of how out of touch the Tories are, here we go again.
Schools on brink of outbreaks
14 September 2020Scores of schools across England have closed or partially closed after positive coronavirus cases.
Massive surge in virus cases shows Tory failures
08 September 2020Britain recorded an enormous rise in coronavirus cases on Sunday. Some 2,988 people tested positive, compared to 1,813 on Saturday—a rise of over 50 percent.
Students return to schools despite safety fears
03 September 2020Children across England have begun returning to schools this week. The Tories claim they want everyone back so that students don’t miss out on education and vulnerable children have more support.
No cash for virus health and safety as schools open doors
31 August 2020Schools don’t have enough money to protect children and staff against coronavirus. Yet the Tories want schools across England to begin fully reopening from this week.
Tories plough ahead with unsafe return to schools
24 August 2020Boris Johnson this week reiterated his drive to get all children in England back to school full time next month. Yet the Tories are refusing to put in place measures to make schools safer, such as smaller class sizes to enable social distancing.
Unfair exam grades still punishing students
24 August 2020A fresh row has broken out over exam grades. And it exposes the way that the system operates to drive down the results of working class children
Student revolt continues as Williamson clings on and key issues remain
20 August 2020One student says, 'The U-turn was a massive victory, but this is only going to finish when we get education reform and get rid of scum like Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson'
Exams U-turn shows that action can beat the Tories
18 August 2020Students have taught all of us a lesson in class war. Protest gets results.
Futures ruined by Tories’ rigged results
14 August 2020Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check.
Furious students protest over A-Levels scandal
14 August 2020Students marched in central London on Friday demanding that Tory education secretary Gavin Williamson resign. They chanted 'No Tories, no cheats, no Eton elites'.
Tories try to justify an unsafe return to schools
10 August 2020Boris Johnson has made it his “national priority” to get all children back to school next month regardless of whether it is safe.
Downgrades of Scottish exam results shows class bias
05 August 2020Scottish teachers' judgements about pupils' exam grades have been overruled, and there's a strong element of class inequality built into the process.
Reports expose racism in police and schools
03 August 2020Cops are more likely to use force against black people, and schools are more likely to exclude them
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