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NEU conference: pay, Palestine, and professional unity
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
TEACHERS STAND TALL: Members of the NEU make a clear show of solidarity with Palestine and condemn the war on Gaza during last year’s conference
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
Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
RON BROWN makes the case for the Morning Star as the daily paper of all trade unionists, and especially education workers who have seen it cover their issues and their actions, day in, day out
IT’S conference season again and the National Education Union (NEU) is back in Harrogate. If you’ve not been, Harrogate is a lovely spa town in North Yorkshire that was once voted the happiest place to live in Britain three years in a row.
But delegates aren’t here to sample the spring water or take a medicinal bath; they are there to set the agenda of the union for another year.
The union heads to conference having just finished an indicative ballot over pay and funding. Members voted to reject the government’s pay offer of 2.8 per cent for all teachers and leaders in England. This below-inflation, unfunded pay rise will do more harm than good.
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