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Teachers to stage a one-day national walkout
Friday 12 July 2013
Teachers are to stage a one-day national walkout in the autumn in a continuing row over pay, pensions and workload, it was announced today.
Teachers to close schools with strike against cuts
Sunday 23 June 2013
Teachers in nearly 3,000 schools will stage a one-day strike on Thursday as union leaders fire the first shots in their campaign against pay and pension curbs and cuts in education spending.
Sweden's top free schools provider to close, in blow to Education Secretary Michael Gove
Friday 31 May 2013
Union leaders condemn leaving schools to 'the mercy of the market'
Reforms to teachers' pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Chief schools inspector says heads will be forced to choose – small pupil groups or well paid staff
'Not in the best interests of children': Headteachers vote no confidence in Michael Gove's reforms
Saturday 18 May 2013
Unions say vote 'sends strongest possible message' to Education Secretary and Government that policies are failing children
National Union of Teachers gives unanimous vote of no confidence in Education Secretary Michael Gove
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Motion is first time in NUT's 143-year history union has taken such a step over Education Secretary
Government's free schools are opening where they're not needed, teachers say - while primary schools face shortage 'crisis'
Monday 01 April 2013
One in five of the Government’s flagship free schools are being opened in areas where there is no need for more school places, new research has revealed.
'Gradgrind' Michael Gove's new curriculum is 'so boring
that truancy will rise,' teachers warn
Sunday 31 March 2013
Bored pupils will play truant from school if Education Secretary Michael Gove goes ahead with his planned new “back to basics” national curriculum, teachers warned today.
NUT agrees on strikes
Sunday 31 March 2013
Teachers pledged their support yesterday for strike action in response to government plans to curb pay rises and increase pension contributions.
Teachers urge boycott of new Ofsted regime
Sunday 31 March 2013
NUT conference delegates call on leadership to find a legal way to foil 'victimising' inspections
Teaching unions launch attack on Ofsted
Saturday 30 March 2013
One delegate calls Sir Michael Wilshaw 'Big Brother'
Teachers to strike over reforms to pay and pensions
Saturday 30 March 2013
Only eight per cent of parents believe the Coalition has improved education, teaching unions claimed last night as they vowed they were ready to embark on strike action this summer.
Damages paid to teachers for assaults and accidents in the classroom soar by a quarter in a year
Friday 29 March 2013
Teachers have won record damages in the past year after a spate of assaults and accidents in the classroom.
Teachers net record £15.6m a year in damages for classroom assaults and accidents
Friday 29 March 2013
Teachers have won record damages in the past year after a spate of assaults and accidents in the classroom.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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