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.”
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Unions threaten primary school strike action against academy plans
Wednesday 09 May 2012
Britain’s two biggest unions are threatening strike action at 13 more primary schools against plans to force them to become academies.
Headteachers could 'boycott Government reading test', warns union leader
Sunday 06 May 2012
Headteachers could boycott the Government's controversial new reading test for six-year-olds if it is used "as a stick to beat schools with", a union leader warned today.
Pupils 'given false claims on abortion'
Saturday 28 April 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove is being urged to publish guidance on how to broach the subject of abortion in schools following claims that groups campaigning against it are giving children false information.
Chalk Talk: You don't have to be angry to join the NUT, but it helps
Thursday 19 April 2012
Unions, it is sometimes said, are a broad church, made up of members with a vastly differing array of opinions.
Council faces legal action over plans to set up Catholic schools without inviting rival bids
Thursday 12 April 2012
A council is facing a test case legal action over plans to set up two Roman Catholic schools in its borough without considering alternative providers.
NHS workers vote on pension reform
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers will begin voting today on whether to accept the Government's controversial pension reforms, with a no vote set to spark fresh strikes.
Gove assigns 133 civil servants to free schools project despite only 24 being open
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove has succonded 133 civil servants to oversee his free schools project despite the fact only 24 of the schools are open.
Turn our schools into academies and we'll strike, teachers warn
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Teachers called yesterday for strike action against schools planning to convert to academies.
What is it about Michael Gove that makes people hate him so much?
Tuesday 10 April 2012
No Education Secretary has ever embarked on such radical reform, so quickly, since Kenneth Baker
Turn our schools into academies and we'll strike, teachers warn
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Union delegates fear Government's desire to promote academies is 'just about privatisation'
Strike threat at school forced to become academy
Monday 09 April 2012
Teachers at one of the first schools forced into becoming an academy by the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, are threatening to go on strike.
'You're not welcome': teachers vote to ban Ofsted
Monday 09 April 2012
NUT conference calls for boycott of inspections and tests in protest at government changes
Free schools 'harm education of children nearby'
Monday 09 April 2012
The Government's flagship free schools are seriously damaging the education of children in neighbouring schools, according to research published today.
Teachers vote for series of strikes this summer over pay rates and pensions
Sunday 08 April 2012
Unions vote overwhelmingly in favour of national and regional action in protest at cuts to take-home earnings
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