Tag archives for National Education Union
Home Ed Soars in Hastings as Schools Falter
JAMES PRENTICE AND HUGH SULLIVAN School pupils returned to classrooms across Britain last week for the new academic year. In advance, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson issued a national warning to…
Local Schools Face Major Staffing Crisis
Schools in Hastings and St Leonards are facing a major staffing crisis as new figures reveal exceptionally high teacher turnover rates in the town. Data from the Department for Education…
NEU calls to return schools to LA control
James Ellis The National Education Union (NEU) held a well-attended demonstration in Wellington Place on Saturday morning (22 March) to support the return to local authority control of six primary…
New MP Raises UBAT Concerns
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Helena Dollimore, the newly elected MP for Hastings and Rye, has raised her concerns about the ongoing dispute between local members of the National Education Union (NEU) and…
Striking Teachers Demand Better Funding
MERLIN BETTS Earlier this week, members of the National Education Union (NEU) went on strike at five schools across Sussex, four of them in Hastings. The union’s principal point of…
Teachers to Strike Over School Trust Management
MERLIN BETTS On Saturday 8 June the National Education Union (NEU) held a meeting to consult with parents and the public on possible strike action against University of Brighton Academies…
Academy Trust Row Continues
Parents and carers at Baird Primary Academy recently received a letter announcing a move from two form entry to “ form entry,” almost certainly meaning different year groups will be…
School Strike Threatened Over ‘Diversion’ of Funding
The University of Brighton Academies Trust (UBAT) has been accused of diverting excessive sums of money from two individual secondary schools which it governs, St Leonards Academy and the Hastings…
Academy Gravy-Train
JENNY SUTTON of the National Education Union says it is unconscionable for Academy Trusts to denude school budgets by creaming off excessive funds for ‘central services’, and that all Academies…
May Day Mayday – Public Services in Crisis
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Jeremy Corbyn, the MP for Islington North, was guest of honour at the annual Hastings May Day Workers’ Day March last Saturday (29 April). Several hundred marchers set…
More School Strikes
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Schools across Hastings were once again disrupted last week as a result of industrial action taken by teachers belonging to the National Education Union. The Hastings Academy and…
Council tax and charges both set to rise
The cost-of-living crisis in Hastings is set to get worse over the coming months after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, signalled government approval for council tax rises in…