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Tag Archives: National Education Union
Union pledges to ‘organise’ against Harris academies’ job cuts
EXCLUSIVE: Eight teachers are to be made redundant from schools in Croydon run by the Harris Federation, according to an internal document obtained by this website. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The multi-academy trust with a half-million-a-year chief executive based … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Harris Aspire Academy Croydon, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Federation, Harris Invictus Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Primary Academy Haling Park, Lord Harris of Peckham, National Education Union, Sir Daniel Moynihan, Tory
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Christ Church Primary teachers carry out their strike threat
Strike action by teachers and support staff at Purley’s Christ Church Primary School has gone ahead today – despite the governors having written to parents last week encouraging them to ignore the industrial action and to send their children into … Continue reading
Posted in Purley, Schools
Tagged Christ Church School, Croydon NEU, Montpelier Road, National Education Union, NEU, Purley
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Purley primary school’s teachers vote for strikes over job cuts
Pupils at Christ Church Primary in Purley, who yesterday broke up for half-term, could be getting more time off school next month after their teachers voted overwhelmingly for strike action. Teachers, members of the National Education Union, voted by a … Continue reading
Posted in Purley, Schools
Tagged Christ Church School, Croydon NEU, Montpelier Road, National Education Union, NEU, Purley
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75% Croydon teachers say SEND provision is getting worse
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Teaching provision for children with SEND – special educational needs and disabilities – continues to be a huge issue nationally and in Croydon, where many pupils across the borough haven’t got the placement required to meet their needs. … Continue reading
It’s an F grade for Keegan over nation’s apprenticeship failings
ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, explains how apprenticeships can be a valuable means of recruitment for some employers while offering some pay to trainees, but that the Education Minister’s dabbling with ‘apprentice teachers’ looks like another ‘fail’ by this Government This … Continue reading
Teachers’ union officials recommend accepting 6.5% offer
Faced by four teaching unions staging co-ordinated strike action from September, the Government has provided funding for an improved pay offer Since February, Croydon’s teachers have taken eight days of strike action, affecting 80per cent of schools in the borough. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, National Education Union, NEU, Tory
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Teachers in unanimous vote to escalate their strike action
A little bleary-eyed after a night in the Town Hall Chamber schooling recalcitrant politicians about their duties to the public, KEN TOWL was back on the picket lines this morning as teachers ramped up their industrial action Thursday morning, and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged Ken Towl, Mayor Jason Perry, National Education Union, NEU
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‘Extremist’ teachers make polite request for a fair pay rise
‘Strike now, while you can!’ Croydon’s teachers rose to the challenge in their union’s placard competition as they marched on Parliament today. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE For many from the Croydon contingent that made their way up to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged ASLEF, Conservative, Croydon, Mick Lynch, Mick Whelan, National Education Union, NEU, Parliament, Rishi Sunak, RMT, Tory
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Most of Croydon schools will be affected by teachers’ strike
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, reports from a teachers’ union meeting on the increasing levels of grievance among schools’ staff According to the Chinese saying, it is a curse to live in “interesting times”. At a rather bullish annual meeting last … Continue reading
Half of borough’s schools expected to close for teachers’ strike
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the likely impact of next month’s industrial action by the National Education Union At least half of Croydon’s state schools will close for the day on Wednesday, February 1. Most of the others will offer … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Dave Harvey, National Education Union, NEU, schools, Tory
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‘No one wants strikes. But I’m happy to stand on the picket line’
‘Travel misery’ won’t be over in south London any time soon. After a week of disruption on rail and the Tube, with airline strikes still to come, ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, appraises next week’s industrial action on Croydon’s Trams After … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Tramlink, First Group, National Education Union, RMT union, Tory, Unison
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Teachers threatened with sackings in gay author dispute
The bitter row with Catholic church over governor sackings and freedom of speech has seen John Fisher School closed for three days this week. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Teachers taking industrial action at John Fisher School have been threatened with … Continue reading
Striking Coulsdon College staff set for action into September
Striking staff at Coulsdon Sixth Form College have stepped up their industrial action, as teachers have taken to the picket lines on Placehouse Lane for a second week. Union members are in dispute over pay disparity between Coulsdon and the … Continue reading
John Fisher governors get Ofsted backing in gay author row
Teachers are on strike at John Fisher School today, with the backing of the majority of parents, as well as former governors and even Ofsted, as the row with the school’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese rumbles into a third month. Governors … Continue reading
Striking teachers at Coulsdon College demand fair pay
About 50 staff at Coulsdon Sixth Form College have joined a picket line this morning, in a dispute between the National Education Union and college management over a refusal by the administration to honour nationally agreed pay awards. Coulsdon Sixth … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon College, Schools
Tagged Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon College, National Education Union, NEU
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Pensions dispute sees private schools’ teachers go on strike
More than 50 teachers at Croydon High School are going on strike tomorrow in the first of six days of planned industrial action to defend their pensions. Croydon High, the fee-paying girls’ prep to sixth form school in Selsdon, is … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon High, Education, Schools
Tagged Croydon High School, Girls Day School Trust, National Education Union, NEU, Selsdon
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#MakeSchoolsSafe: The NEU advert the Mail banned
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, National Education Union, NEU
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Is your school safe? Teachers’ union launches covid map
Britain’s largest teachers’ union has started a website which offers interactive mapping to show the covid-19 infection rate around individual schools. The National Education Union’s “Covid-19 Map for Schools” website allows anyone to search for their local school and see … Continue reading
June 1 is too soon to go back to school, say teachers’ union
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on the potentially deadly dilemma facing the borough’s headteachers, parents and youngest pupils There’s growing doubts – and much scientific evidence – that next Monday is too soon for young children to be expected to go … Continue reading
Croydon teachers issue warning over re-opening of schools
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on a dire warning from the vast majority of the borough’s teachers over placing wealth before health Teachers in the borough have written to the council to warn that they oppose any plans for a … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Education, Health, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, National Education Union, NEU
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Schools face cuts of up to £1,100 per pupil under Tories
Every school in Croydon faces further funding cuts if the Conservatives are returned to power in Thursday’s General Election. Those are the findings of the National Education Union, who state that some of Croydon’s 103 state schools could lose as … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 General Election, Education, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Liberal Democrats, National Education Union, NEU, Tory
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Coulsdon teachers go on strike over £700m funding shortfall
Teaching union members working at Coulsdon Sixth Form College will be on strike on Wednesday, demanding more funding for their students and their college. Across the country, the National Education Union will be taking strike action at another 33 sixth … Continue reading
Borough’s schools’ budgets slashed by £15.3m since 2015
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on the startling findings of research into the impact of continuing Tory austerity on schools in Croydon, where teachers pay out of their own pockets for text books and glue sticks Croydon’s state schools are … Continue reading
