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‘A baptism of fire’ - Daniel Kebede on hitting the ground running as the NEU's new leader
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko interviews the new general secretary of Britain's biggest industry-specific union
National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede
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DANIEL KEBEDE admits his first weeks as National Education Union (NEU) general secretary have been a “baptism of fire.”
A sudden alarm over unsafe school buildings, announced just days before the start of the autumn term, has forced him to hit the ground running as ministers sow confusion over the number of schools affected.
It’s “a metaphor for this government’s lack of commitment to education,” Kebede tells me.
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