TEACHERS cried out against the “unacceptably high pension age” in the profession yesterday.
In a series of speeches NASUWT delegates in Birmingham recounted their fears of working into their later years and trying to cope with an punishing work-life balance.
Teacher Neil Fletcher from Barnsley told conference that his love of boules had drawn jokes about him looking like a pensioner.
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
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


