We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Close our schools now
If we are going to have a second lockdown we need to do it properly — and that means closing schools, colleges and universities, argues ROBERT POOLE
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Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
As Labour mimics Tory welfare cuts while ignoring crumbling schools, educators must collectively resist the government's priorities and fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children, writes NEU president SARAH KILPATRICK
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
WHEN I was asked to write this monthly column it did cross my mind that there might be times when I might struggle to fill the column inches. It seems now that the opposite is the case.
I’ve just binned the first draft of a diatribe against the callous Tory school-dinner-lifters as news comes in of a second lockdown. Though if I had been more conscientious perhaps I should have written this piece in the summer and filed it away in anticipation as it was so blindingly obvious what was going to happen.
Nadine Dorries would disagree of course, she said that only “a crystal ball” could have predicted the need for a second lockdown. Or perhaps only Sage or Independent Sage or every armchair scientist having a socially distanced pint down the pub or my four-year-old in between shooting imaginary webs in his Halloween Spiderman costume could have predicted it.
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The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
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