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The situation facing schools, teachers and children has never been worse, but the NUT has been fighting back strongly at grassroots level, writes ALEX KENNY
Newly elected National Education Union vice-president AMANDA MARTIN speaks to the Morning Star about the challenges facing teachers and schoolchildren in Britain today
Trade unionists can learn valuable lessons in community solidarity from the longest strike in British history, writes CHRIS SMITH
Teachers, Parents and Kids Fight for our Education (While Greening Stays at Home)
‘Politically neutral’ group speaks out
Fragmentation in education since 2010 has put the question of political influence firmly on the union agenda, says KEVIN COURTNEY
Britain could take a leaf out of Finnish educationalists’ book, says ROBIN HEAD
Massive workloads ‘are pushing people out of the profession’
Amendment passed removing reference to reviewing relationship with political parties
Teachers could use existing mandate to strike in regions where school cuts have hit hardest
Euphoria for our new union is fine, but we can’t rest on our laurels, argues HOWARD STEVENSON
Now is our time to fight back against the education cuts imposed by a government obsessed with privatisation, says LOUISE REGAN
In his second article, KEVIN COURTNEY writes that teachers have natural allies in parents and other trade union members. Working with these people will have a transformative effect on how teaching is delivered
Union will take Tories to court over scam to sneak in new grammar schools
KEVIN COURTNEY looks ahead to how the new NEU will organise in order to grow as a lay-led democratic organisation
Kids’ textbooks and art supplies now on the shopping list
Members vote overwhelmingly for ‘historic’ teachers’ union merger
Future of education threatened, warn workers
Teachers picket conference sponsored by school privateer in developing world
MARI BURTON wonders how the Cuban education system creates such confident students, yet in Britain the system is failing
NIPARUN NESSA reports on an NUT delegation to Cuba – where she was overwhelmed by the Cuban people’s warm welcome and genuine commitment to equality
British special educational needs co-ordinator MAGGIE MORAN reflects on Cuba’s educational provision for students
Teacher died of cancer due to toxic classroom material
Teachers rally as government slashes budgets
NUT and ATL special conferences back amalgamation plan
"National Education Union" overwhelmingly carried at special conferences and could be TUC's fourth largest affiliate
"National Education Union" overwhelmingly carried at special conferences and could be TUC's fourth largest affiliate
ATL and NUT members will vote on merger ballot
By Gawain Little
Thousands of teachers strike against Tory education cuts
Osborne’s cuts have put an intolerable financial squeeze on schools, which is why teachers are taking strike action today, explains KEVIN COURTNEY
Ofsted chief says education suffering under bosses’ ambition
UN: poorer children get sub-standard schools
UCU members walk out on strike across Britain over measly offer
There’s no place in education for phoney ‘competitive’ values, writes CHRISTINE BLOWER
The head of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association has finally been released after five years’ imprisonment, writes CHRISTINE BLOWER
NUT leader Blower calls for common front against the Tories’ hated policies
CHRISTINE BLOWER tells Luke James that teachers are prepared for a tough fight against the Tories’ free-market fanatacism and to go all the way for quality education
School leaders come out against bid to privatise primary schools
A National Union of Teachers delegation to the six counties in February was shocked by the state of affairs, writes Annette Pryce
Cancel SATs or face summer strikes, NUT tells Education Secretary
By Conrad Landin, at NUT conference in Brighton
The government says that we have a school-led system. Nothing is further from the truth, writes KEN JONES
Over 80 per cent of local authority schools are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — why force them to change? asks KEVIN COURTNEY
Sats ‘too difficult and will cause kids’ stress,’ NUT warns
Corbyn: Tory plot to turn all England’s schools into academies will end in asset-stripping
The more free schools flunk their grades, the more time and money the government throws at them, writes Solomon Hughes
The International Labour Organisation has taken the government to task over its vicious plans to curb the trade union movement – but CAROLYN JONES doubts whether courtroom decisions will be enough to stop the Tories in their tracks
£154,000 spent per role, Labour probe reveals
Court blames exposure for death of retiree Elizabeth Belt
Unions label Chancellor an ‘economic Frankenstein’
A new book looks at how teachers are responding to the marketisation of schools. Its editor GAWAIN LITTLE talks to Ben Chacko about the Global Education Reform Movement
Teacher and anti-testing campaigner LOUISE REGAN says an obsession with exams is ruining childhoods
Morgan bends rules to allow new grammar
High workloads plus pay and staffing cuts cause low morale
Workers ‘should consider generalised strike’
Schools are a public service and should be run as such, writes CHRISTINE BLOWER
KEITH EWING and JOHN HENDY explore how the movement can resist the government’s draconian Trade Union Bill
The matchwomen not only fought for themselves but also for a wider vision of social justice – a proud tradition
which today’s labour movement continues, writes CHRISTINE BLOWER
Front-line staff made to report on prisoners and schoolkids
Campaigners demand £150 million refurbishment cash be spent on more important buildings
CHRISTINE BLOWER on schools privatisation
Morgan’s improvement claims blown apart
Labour’s failure means we have to start asking how society can be made to represent the many not the few, says TED KNIGHT
John Cryer tells rally ‘Labour must go further’
Website Teacher Solidarity talks to David Wilson about the day of action at Pearson’s AGM
Parents and teachers from US and Britain take on teaching firm Pearson’s failures at its 2015 AGM
Labour will force some firms to offer on-the-job training
NUT highlights dark side of anti-terror strategy
Hunt warns Cameron sees profit in education
Teachers debate next move as action proposal defeated
‘Urgent action’ needed to ensure fair pay and end tax and salary rip-off
Testing of four-year-olds is a way of introducing covert selection into our schools system, says
KEVIN COURTNEY
Gawain Little speaks to the people behind a new educational resource aimed at educating children in Britain about the lives of children living under Israeli occupation
Cash crisis and redundancies prompt call for strikes
Labour’s Hunt warned he could be sued if he tries to stop rise of free schools
Striking primary teachers win kids’ solidarity against privatisation
Watchdog methods slammed as ‘part of the problem, not part of the solution’
Our manifesto could become a critical issue in the run-up to the general election, writes Kevin Courtney
CHRISTINE BLOWER explains the logic behind the NUT’s Stand Up for Education campaign
Former Times Educational Supplement editor and Gove fan Gerard Kelly has sparked outrage on Twitter with an astonishing attack on a trade union activist. LOUISE RAW reports
New chairman David Hoare is academy chain trustee