Articles from United Kingdom
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2016 UK university lecturers stage walkout in fight for equal gender pay and fair contracts
Members of the University and College Union have launched a two-day strike across the UK in response to falling salaries and precarious contracts after the employers’ final offer was viewed as “an insult.”
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Standards and working conditions 19 April 2016 “Ticking time bomb” has UK education unions concerned over falling teacher-training numbers
Teacher unions have expressed huge concerns over the latest teacher training figures of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, warning that excessive workloads and low pay are deterring graduates from the profession.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 April 2016 UK: Unions welcome dropping of baseline assessment by Government
Major UK education unions have welcomed the announcement by Government that baseline assessments will not now be used for measuring primary school student progress in subsequent years. This follows the publication of a comparative study on baseline assessments used by primary schools.
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Union renewal and development 29 March 2016 UK: NASUWT conference demands supportive funding reform
The planned reforms on school funding by the British government need to recognise the local needs of all schools and support equality of opportunity and achievement for every pupil, says British education union NASUWT.
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Standards and working conditions 15 March 2016 UK: Supply teachers are victims of dubious working practices
Supply teachers in the UK have reported serious concerns about increasingly doubtful working practices by their contracting agencies, with an impact both their working conditions and quality of life.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 February 2016 UK: Neglect pushes teachers out of the profession
The British public education service is haemorrhaging teachers, many of whom are either seeking better conditions outside of the United Kingdom or contemplating a career change to flee precarious employment.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2016 United Kingdom: Empowering teachers to empower learners
Finding innovative, practical solutions to today’s social challenges; the need to build a movement of empowered - and empowering - teachers; and embracing a humane, democratic approach to transforming education systems - those were the issues discussed by educators and experts at a recent event in London.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 January 2016 UK: Support for academies in education bill a mistake, say experts
Trade unions in the UK have joined together with education experts, including teachers, governors, and school staff, to highlight the shortcomings of their government's Education and Adoption Bill to speed up the process of converting ‘failing’ schools into academies.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 November 2015 Disadvantaged pupils strongly impacted by cuts in education, say UK education unionists
Teachers unions have commented on the Sutton Trust "Background to Success" report on disadvantaged pupils, stressing that austerity measures affecting school funding make it extremely difficult for students from poorer communities to access quality education.
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Union renewal and development 13 November 2015 Stronger union and government relations the answer to creating better education systems
Strong, healthy education systems are possible when governments include teachers’ unions in policy decision making was the message Education International made clear to Britain’s education stakeholders recently in London.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 22 October 2015 UK families forced to choose between school uniforms and food
A UK report shows that the mounting cost of school uniforms has led to the families of more than one million children to cut back on food spending and basic essentials.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 14 October 2015 International campaigners say British aid to private schools could violate human rights
A new ground breaking report has found that the UK’s education development funding policies that favour for-profit low-fee private schools may be in violation of the country’s obligations to the right to free quality education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 August 2015 UK: outstanding 2015 GSCE results to be backed up by additional governmental measures
Education unions have commented on the General Certificate of Secondary Education’s results, demonstrating the value of the UK public education system, and urged the Government to take further action to sustain the positive results.
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 August 2015 UK: fighting student violence in schools
Unions respond to data released by the Department for Education that shows the alarming rise of assaults on teachers by pupils, a problem that underlines the need to address student violence within education institutions.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 June 2015 UK: Education Bill a further step towards school privatisation, trade unions say
Teacher unions in the UK are strongly criticising the Government’s Education Bill that seeks to convert 1,000 so-called ‘failing’ schools to academy status and remove “bureaucratic and legal loopholes.”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 June 2015 UK: Queen’s throne speech not welcomed by education unions
Teachers unions in the United Kingdom are fiercely criticising the education policy included in the Queen’s Speech outlining the Government’s mandate as the new session of parliament following the national election officially opened.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 28 April 2015 UK: Teachers’ decisive action against ‘for profit’ drive in education
“#TellPearson no to ‘for profit’ schools because #ChildrenDeserve good public education @pearson.”This was one of the rallying slogans of education trade union leaders and parents in their action opposing education privatisation in London, UK.
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Standards and working conditions 9 April 2015 UK: Education unions say experience counts
The need to value older, experienced teachers was a hot topic for two of the UK’s education unions during their annual national conferences where they opposed what they see as on-going discrimination.
UK: Education unions say experience counts