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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) has condemned the news that all new academies and free schools, including those that have opened since September 2014, will now be inspected by Ofsted only during the third year of operation, rather than the second.
Deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney said the announcement amounted to free schools and converter academies being given “a free pass.”
He said: “Extending this grace period from two to three years of operation underlines the extent to which these categories of school are being given special treatment.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
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