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MDC may quit over new powers for Mugabe
Tuesday 30 June 2009
The troubled unity government of Zimbabwe is locked in a "make or break" battle over the constitution that could see the party of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai walk out.
Brown tries to head off poll boycott by activists
Thursday 21 May 2009
Email apology to party workers after fears that campaign is moribund
Teachers set to axe school tables
Monday 04 May 2009
Heads' action threatens two pillars of Labour education reform: pupil tests and league tables
Leading article: It would be irresponsible of heads to boycott Sats tests
Monday 04 May 2009
An impasse looms – but transparency serves both parents and pupils well
Headteachers vote to boycott primary school tests
Sunday 03 May 2009
Snub to Ed Balls as his speech to the heads' conference fails to persuade them to back down
Heads' union appeals for backing in Sats boycott
Saturday 02 May 2009
Industrial action over Sats tests is expected to move a step closer today as a headteachers' union prepares to ask its members to back a proposed boycott.
Hundreds of schools cannot find a head
Saturday 02 May 2009
Teachers are refusing promotions because top role is too demanding, says union
India poll rebels free train passengers
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Police say suspected communist rebels have freed more than 250 train passengers after keeping them hostage for nearly five hours at a rail station in eastern India.
Chanting teachers welcome vote to boycott primary tests
Sunday 12 April 2009
Union to ballot members on action to halt SATs for seven and 11-year-olds
Balls: test refusal is unlawful
Saturday 11 April 2009
The government last night gave a blunt warning to teachers ahead of a vote tomorrow that boycotting national curriculum tests for 600,000 11-year-olds would be illegal. The intervention raised the stakes in the row over the tests with members of the National Union of Teachers, who plan to back a boycott of tests in maths, English and science at their conference in Cardiff today. Aides to the Schools Secretary Ed Balls said it would be unlawful for headteachers not to deliver the tests.
Should the tests for 11-year-olds be scrapped?
Saturday 11 April 2009
Yes
Stephen Pickles
With all the maelstrom of preparing for the SATs (national curriculum tests for 11-year-olds), you get a narrowing of the curriculum in the two years leading up to them.
Robin Scott-Elliot: Cloughie and Boycott: egos incorporated
Monday 30 March 2009
View From The Sofa: Clough, Trophy Kids ITV/C4
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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