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Teachers' unions threaten strike action

The Government is facing the threat of co-ordinated strikes by the two biggest teachers' unions in the autumn after being accused of plunging education into a state of “crisis.”
Teacher exodus as thousands go for early exit
Postgraduate students are being used as 'slave labour'
Student Loans Company head to stand down
Michael Gove defends school Bibles scheme
Over 250 schools to receive repair funding
Michael Gove rejects demands for more grammar schools
GCSEs' value questioned by CBI
Parents join striking teachers at academy row school
Mike Sheridan: Confessions of an Ofsted inspector
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Chalk Talk: Roll up, roll up - if your school is not an academy yet, it soon will be

I must confess my visit to the Academies Show in London's Olympia left me feeling a little mischievous last week. Not sure whether it was the sharp-suited stewards ushering everybody hither and thither with a kind of discipline even new chief schools inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw could only dream of. Or maybe it was the language used by some of the speakers – "structured customer feedback" particularly stuck in the throat. (There had been no mention of children up until then.)
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Steve Iredale: 'I won't be telling six-year-olds that they're failures'
Chalk Talk: You don't have to be angry to join the NUT, but it helps
Two private school headmasters are campaigning to help refurbish a crumbling comprehensive
Chalk Talk: Schools Minister runs the gauntlet at conference
Taunton school hires top consultant to get its pupils into the Ivy League
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Student loans chief Ed Lester to stand down

Student Loans Company head Ed Lester will stand down when his contract expires next year in the wake of controversy over his tax arrangements.

Michael Farthing: 'The 1994 Group represents the sane middle'
Chalk Talk: Too many famous lecturers – and not enough time for checking out gigs
Universities still missing state school admission targets
Chalk Talk: The green chancellor who's planning to make his voice heard
'Today, Rita could have signed up to Open University on Facebook'
Universities set to lose £5.6bn as overseas applications plummet
Bad behaviour that's all in a good cause: Students are carrying on the RAG tradition
University places to be cut by 15,000
Student sends Oxford University rejection letter for 'taking itself too seriously'
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