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Articles from United Kingdom

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 September 2012

    UK: Government should stop playing politics with international students

    The University and College Union (UCU), one of EI’s national affiliates, is publicising a petition to support international students at the London Metropolitan University (LMU) who have been affected by the last month decision of the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to revoke the Tier 4 licence of the LMU.

    UK: Government should stop playing politics with international students
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 September 2012

    U.K.: Education unions react to GCSE results

    The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), the National Union of Teachers (NUT), and the University and College Union (UCU), three EI’s national affiliates, have commented on the publication of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results. The GCSE is an academic qualification awarded in a...

    U.K.: Education unions react to GCSE results
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 August 2012

    UK: Government support needed to promote school sports

    EI national affiliates in the UK reacted angrily to Prime Minister David Cameron’s suggestion that teachers were not “playing their part” in school sports. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) were reacting to Cameron’s call for “a big cultural...

    UK: Government support needed to promote school sports
  8. Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 July 2012

    UK: Unions condemn plans to open more free schools

    The two largest of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have strongly reacted against Downing Street's plans to open a further 100 free schools in England from next year onwards.

    UK: Unions condemn plans to open more free schools
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2012

    Education union leader debunks anti-teacher activist’s assertions

    EI welcomes a recent BBC show featuring the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ (ATL) General Secretary Mary Bousted and Michelle Rhee, a former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. It allowed one of the UK’s top education trade unionists to reassert what quality teachers and teacher assessment mean.

    Education union leader debunks anti-teacher activist’s assertions
  10. Standards and working conditions 25 June 2012

    UK: Government must raise teachers’ training quality and work conditions

    EI’s national affiliates in the UK, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), have called on the Government to provide teachers with quality training and decent working conditions.

    UK: Government must raise teachers’ training quality and work conditions
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 May 2012

    UK: Historic joint agreement launched

    Two of the UK’s biggest trade unions have launched an historic joint agreement committing the trade unions to work together to protect teachers and defend education. The two unions, both EI affiliates, are the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT).

    UK: Historic joint agreement launched
  12. Standards and working conditions 12 April 2012

    UK: educators’ unions vote to strike over pensions, pay and job losses

    At their annual conferences, two of EI’s affiliates in the United Kingdom, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters’ Union and Women Teachers (NASUWT), have voted in favour of further industrial action, including strikes. The organisations profoundly disagree with the Cameron Government’s policy on public...

    UK: educators’ unions vote to strike over pensions, pay and job losses
  13. Standards and working conditions 12 April 2012

    UK: Teachers’ morale has fallen in last two years

    In the current political and economic climate, the teaching profession is coming under new and ever-increasing pressures. A recent survey commissioned by one of EI’s affiliates in UK, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), showed teachers’ morale had worsened over the last two years.

    UK: Teachers’ morale has fallen in last two years
  14. Standards and working conditions 22 March 2012

    UK: Unions strike over pension proposals

    EI’s national affiliates in the UK, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the University and College Union (UCU), are calling a one-day strike in London on 28 March, as the next step in their pension campaign. Trade unionists are protesting against changes to the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

    UK: Unions strike over pension proposals