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Articles from United Kingdom

  1. Trade union rights are human rights 5 September 2013

    UK: Strikes planned in ongoing campaign to protect teachers

    Plans are in place for a national teachers’ strike in England before Christmas in a row over adverse changes to teachers’ pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs. This is the next phase of a campaign to protect teachers and defend education, jointly coordinated by the two biggest UK teachers' unions...

    UK: Strikes planned in ongoing campaign to protect teachers
  2. Union growth 12 August 2013

    UK: Education Secretary must listen to teachers, not attack them

    Two of EI’s affiliates, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have criticised a survey released by the UK polling organisation, Populus.

    UK: Education Secretary must listen to teachers, not attack them
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 July 2013

    Fighting Privatisation in Higher Education

    At its recent Congress, the University and College Union (UK) unveiled a new toolkit for members to campaign against the growing pressures of privatisation.

    Fighting Privatisation in Higher Education
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 July 2013

    UK: Revised curriculum fails to reflect student needs

    EI’s UK affiliates, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) have expressed concern about the revised national curriculum for state schools in England. The new curriculum, implemented by Education Secretary Michael Gove, is being introduced from September 2014.

    UK: Revised curriculum fails to reflect student needs
  6. Union growth 27 June 2013

    UK: Education unions’ joint strike rallies

    The NASUWT and the NUT, two of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, are taking joint action as part of their campaign to protect teachers and education. The educators’ unions are in dispute with the Government over teachers’ pay, pensions and working conditions. Tens of thousands of teachers in the...

    UK: Education unions’ joint strike rallies
  7. Standards and working conditions 9 April 2013

    UK: Video alleges Education Minister’s misuse of evidence

    The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the two largest EI national affiliates in the UK, have recommended a video about the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The video looks at the policies pursued by Gove...

    UK: Video alleges Education Minister’s misuse of evidence
  8. Equity and inclusion 26 March 2013

    United Kingdom: Transgender primary school teacher dies

    After having been publicly bullied in a newspaper column in the United Kingdom’s second-largest paper, the Daily Mail, a transgender teacher is said to have taken her own life when the attacks became too much to cope with.

    United Kingdom: Transgender primary school teacher dies
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 March 2013

    UK: campaign to protect teachers and education

    The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), EI affiliates, have announced the next phase of their jointly coordinated national campaign to protect teachers and defend education.

    UK: campaign to protect teachers and education
  10. Trade union rights are human rights 15 March 2013

    UK: Education unionists fight asbestos in schools

    The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has welcomed the spotlight focused on asbestos in schools at the Education Select Committee Inquiry into Asbestos in Schools on 13 March’s. EI’s UK affiliates, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and the...

    UK: Education unionists fight asbestos in schools
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 January 2013

    UK: Trade unions react to Academies Commission Report

    The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), two EI affiliates in the UK, have reacted to ‘Unleashing Greatness: Getting the best from an academised system’, a report released on 10 December by the Academies Commission.

    UK: Trade unions react to Academies Commission Report
  12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 December 2012

    The Vandals at the Gate

    Defending higher education in an age of austerity - a view from the University and College Union (United Kingdom) By Kathy Taylor, President, University and College Union, United Kingdom

    The Vandals at the Gate
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 November 2012

    Andreas Schleicher: You must emulate and innovate to keep pace

    The nature of education has moved on in high-performing nations; it's time the UK moved on too, says Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General.

    Andreas Schleicher: You must emulate and innovate to keep pace
  14. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 November 2012

    UK: Mixed reviews for 2013 English grading process

    Two of EI’s national affiliates, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), have commented on plans to change the GCSE English grading process for 2013.

    UK: Mixed reviews for 2013 English grading process
  17. Standards and working conditions 26 September 2012

    Raised voices are calling for respect

    Teachers need a role in decision-making as much as a limit to their workload, says John Bangs

    Raised voices are calling for respect