Low marks for teachers' Easter farce

Article Abstract:

Teachers' unions will further damage their credibility if they go ahead with their completely uncoordinated plans for action over class sizes. Their inability to work together is likely to cause great confusion in the classroom, and teachers will never really successful in putting their views across if their unions continue to refuse to cooperate with each other. It is now time to abandon old divisions and to establish strong links with people outside the teaching profession.

Management, Teachers' unions

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Teachers demand strike ballot

Article Abstract:

Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), meeting at the union's annual conference, have defied their leaders and voted in favour of a ballot on a one-day strike. This could lead to a rolling programme of industrial action, causing large-scale disruption in schools. Delegates rejected a moderate amendment from the union's executive which supported local strike action when requested by individual schools with classes which are too large.

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When unruly pupils cross boundaries

Article Abstract:

Delegates attending the UK National Union of Teachers' 1997 annual conference have voted to support ballots for strikes over unruly pupils. This is the first time that the largest teachers' union in the UK has expressed support for the right of teachers to refuse to teach disruptive pupils. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers has already organised, or threatened, a number of strikes on this issue.

Education, Problem children

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