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TEACHING unions attacked the government’s use of aid money to fund private schools in developing countries yesterday as a breach of human rights.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and University and College Union (UCU) were among an international coalition of organisations condemning British investment in for-profit schools in Asia and Africa.
They warned that comprehensive, public education as a human right could come under threat.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER