Under-threat workers to lobby their MPs over cuts
Hundreds of staff from under-threat government agencies are expected to descend on Westminster tomorrow to put pressure on their MPs over the coalition's highly-criticised plan to cut so called...
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Education Bill – A horrifying vision for the future of education
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:51:00 GMT
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
Education Bill – A horrifying vision for the future of education
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:51:00 GMT
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
The core values and ethos of state education, social justice, democratic accountability and equality, are all left in tatters by the provisions in this Bill.
Education Bill
TUC Briefing: 7 February 2011
The Education Bill, which was introduced in Parliament on 26 January, takes forward a number of new measures set out in the Schools White Paper – The Importance of Teaching – and also builds on the provisions in the Academies Act. The TUC and its affiliated unions have raised a number of major concerns about the direction of the coalition government’s policy reform on school education…
Thousands to miss out as government removes right to apprenticeships
Responding to today's announcement from the government that over 100,000 apprenticeships will be created, UCU warned that thousands of young people could still miss out after the government said it would withdraw its offer of a guaranteed apprenticeship for those with the right qualifications.
Coalition should come clean on free school funding
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:15:00 GMT
Response to news that increased amount of funds being allocated by the Department for Education to the Coalition Government’s free schools programme
Response to news that increased amount of funds being allocated by the Department for Education to the Coalition Government’s free schools programme
Don’t let apprenticeships become the new YTS
Speaking at the Southern & Eastern TUC conference on the first day of Apprenticeships Week, Tom Wilson, director of unionlearn, said
IoD is wrong to make life easy for directors at expense of their workforce, says TUC
Commenting on proposals for economic growth announced today (Monday) by the Institute of Directors (IoD), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“Only in the IoD's Thatcherite fantasy world will measures that reduce training lead to economic growth.
“It's quite wrong to confuse policies that make life easy for directors at the expense of their workforce with a programme for economic growth.
The Learning Legacy
It is not just the Olympic and Paralympic athletes who have been set goals for the 2012 Games, there is a whole army of young people who are working towards qualifications and new skills as they make up the workforce building the stadia and Athletes’ Village on the east London site…
Unite health bill briefing
Unite the union will give a briefing for journalists on its evidence to the public bill committee on the NHS Health and Social Care bill.