Government U-turn on in-person teaching as universities suffer 50,000 cases of Covid
Online learning will be the default for university teaching when students return after the Christmas break as government makes a massive U-turn. Trying to continue with in-person teaching has seen nearly 50,000 More...
UK minister slams schools for uncontested teaching of ‘white privilege’ & ‘inherited racial guilt,’ claiming it BREAKS THE LAW
The UK’s minister for women and equalities has stated that teaching political ideas such as “white privilege” and “critical race theory” as fact is illegal, adding that schools have a duty to remain politically More...
Welcome to Strike School, the Programme Teaching Global Workers to Fight Back
“The strike is the most powerful experience that I’ve ever had in terms of transforming anything,” says Stacy Davis Gates, vice-president of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. “There is almost a religious transformation More...
China’s Wuhan to reopen schools, but remains ready to revert to online teaching if Covid-19 spreads
Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 outbreak was first detected in China, is reopening schools and kindergartens next week. However, contingency plans are in place to switch back to online education should the coronavirus More...
Poland says it will QUIT European treaty on violence against women as it requires teaching children ‘ideological’ gender theory
The Polish government is pulling out of a European treaty said to focus on violence against women. Warsaw says it contains a provision for the schools to teach children about gender theory, which calls biological More...
The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed in the X-ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease
The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed in the X-ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in May Morning More...
Teaching union hits back at Education Secretary Gavin Williamson over his ‘lamentable performance’ during Covid crisis
THE government’s attack on teaching unions was slammed as a “clumsy attempt” to divert attention from its poor performance during the Covid-19 crisis today. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has vowed More...
Laura Smith: Why we should listen to our teaching unions
Teaching unions are right to set tests for the government to meet to protect their members, children, and families, says Laura Smith Counterfire Daily More...
Belabored Stories: NYU Teaching Assistants Are on a Sick-Out
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer. Dissent MagazineDissent Magazine More...
Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
Friday’s demonstrations were dubbed the “Doomsday Strike” in reference to the 11:59pm deadline set for UCSC TAs to submit Fall semester grades or be fired. World Socialist Web Site (en) More...
