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• Education (UK)

  Britain: Five Things we have Learnt from the National Education Union’s Mobilisation to Keep Schools Safe

  5 January 2021, by KELLAWAY Dave

  Dave Kellaway highlights the lessons learnt from the recent government closure of English Schools. 1. Working people can collectively intervene and make a difference in the Covid-19 pandemic
  Right up to the day before schools were due to reopen Johnson said that schools were safe. A day later, (...)

• Education (UK)

  Britain:Education workers teach Tories and Starmer the bleeding obvious

  5 January 2021, by STOWE Andy

  Last week the National Education Union (NEU) [[https://neu.org.uk] represented about 450 000 teaching assistants, learning mentors, premises staff, office workers and teachers in schools and colleges in England and Wales writes Andy Stowe.
  Over the last few days, it has gained an estimated 16 (...)

• Education (UK)

  Britain: Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms

  3 October 2020, by SALISBURY Remi Joseph

  New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury.
  Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) released new guidance to help ‘implement the new statutory curriculum’. The guidance (...)