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TEACHERS and education campaigners demonstrated in London yesterday to demand investment in education as it faces “the largest cuts in a generation.”
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) warned that schools are set to lose a shocking £2.5 billion a year by 2020, with 92 per cent of schools facing funding cuts.
People’s Assembly national secretary Sam Fairbairn warned: “All public services are in a deep crisis because of this government.
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK