28 h. ago Teachers on path to strike action after major vote on 'unacceptable' pay offer

The largest education union in the country will launch a formal ballot on strike action if the Government's final pay offer for teachers 'remains unacceptable'

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29 h. ago Teaching union votes to launch strike ballot if pay offer remains ‘unacceptable’

It comes after National Education Union teacher members in England suggested they would be willing to take action over pay.

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53 h. ago Union to debate launching formal ballot for strike action over teachers’ pay

The majority of National Education Union (NEU) teacher members have said they would be willing to strike over the Government’s proposed 2.8% pay rise.

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6 d. ago Biggest British debate competition in the world run by Oxford Union pressures hundreds of children as young as 14 to declare their gender pronouns

Competitors at Oxfords Schools', aged 14-18, are instructed by organisers to specify whether they are 'he/she/they etc' at the start of each round.

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9 d. ago Second union at Edinburgh University ballots staff over proposed cuts

Unison has started a consultative ballot of 600 staff, while the University and College Union is carrying out a formal strike ballot of its members.

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1 week ago The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at riskWith Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda. From draconian abortion policies to ending birthright citizenship, some of Trump’s first executive orders sound startlingly like something out of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel turned TV show set in Gilead, a fundamentalist, fascist version of the US where women have no rights. But it is urgent we understand that what is happening in the US could happen here. This road to Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we may well be sleepwalking on to it.In November 2024 I debated with the American conservative lawyer Erin Hawley at the Oxford Union. The motion was “This house regrets the overturning of Roe v Wade”, the US supreme court’s landmark decision that once protected the right to h...

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1 week ago Union to ballot workers at beleaguered Dundee University on strike action

The university has been struggling with a £35 million deficit.

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3 w. ago Head teacher at school where two teenagers were stabbed after knife gang stormed private birthday takes action as she speaks out on terrifying attack

Victoria Morris, the head of Elm Park Primary School in Havering, east London, told of her 'shock' after a group of more than 50 youths armed with knives and machetes gatecrashed the 'private' event.

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4 w. ago EU debates ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after Trump orders staff cuts at US

European Union government ministers are debating ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet over the weekend

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last month Edinburgh University staff ballot finds 75% of union members ready to strike over £140m jobs threat

Bosses have recently said ‘nothing is off the table’ as part of efforts to repair finances

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last month Three quarters of Edinburgh University staff ready to launch strike action over £140m jobs threat

Bosses have recently said ‘nothing is off the table’ as part of efforts to repair finances

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