Tag Archives: NEU

Teachers threatened with sackings in gay author dispute

Posted on May 12, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Striking Coulsdon College staff set for action into September

Posted on May 5, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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John Fisher governors get Ofsted backing in gay author row

Posted on April 28, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Striking teachers at Coulsdon College demand fair pay

Posted on April 27, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Pensions dispute sees private schools’ teachers go on strike

Posted on February 9, 2022 by insidecroydon

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 →

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#MakeSchoolsSafe: The NEU advert the Mail banned

Posted on January 8, 2021 by insidecroydon
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Croydon teachers issue warning over re-opening of schools

Posted on May 4, 2020 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Schools face cuts of up to £1,100 per pupil under Tories

Posted on December 10, 2019 by insidecroydon

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 →

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