The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
The teaching profession is at breaking point
The failure to provide salaries which are competitive and which reflect the immensely skilled nature of the job of teaching is triggering a teacher exodus, warns NASUWT general secretary PATRICK ROACH
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
AFTER two years of being forced to move to a virtual event, I am delighted that this year the NASUWT is able to return to holding an in-person annual conference this weekend.
Our members are gathering in Birmingham for four days of debates and discussion which will set our policy agenda for the year ahead.
Our agenda is decided by our members, they tell us what matters to them, but underlying the wide-ranging set of issues which will be debated runs a thread of discontent at the growing crisis in teacher wellbeing and morale.
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