Showing posts with label Kevin Courtney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin Courtney. Show all posts
Wednesday 7 December 2022

Ditching of Schools Bill welcomed - let's concentrate on teaching, learning and pupil wellbeing

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 The announcement by the Government that the Schools Bill is not to proceed is very welcome. It appeared that apart from concentrating on al...
Saturday 12 December 2020

NEU calls for mass Covid19 testing in primary as well as secondary schools

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With the number of school workers testing positive for Covid 19 rising in Brent, this statement by the Co-General Secretary of the National ...
Sunday 23 August 2020

NEU responds to PHE England report /Chief Medical Officer comments on return to school

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 Commenting on today's report by PHE England and the Chief Medical Officer's comments on the full return of schools and colleges,...
Tuesday 14 April 2020

NEU calls for clarity on Government's school re-opening plans - Letter to Boris Johnson

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From the National Education Union Letter to Prime Minister calling for end to unhelpful speculation on school and colleges reopening. ...
Tuesday 7 April 2020

NEU: Combination of current Covid-19 measures, including school closures, should remain in place

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IMMEDIATE NEU COMMENT ON MEDIA REPORTING OF UCL RESEARCH ON SCHOOL CLOSURES 7 April 2020 School Closure Policies Throughout the cu...
Sunday 5 April 2020

Tributes pour in for Indro Sen - great CNWL lecturer and trade unionist

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Former secondary maths teacher, primary school governor,  College of North West London lecturer,  and most importantly trade unionist, I...
Monday 9 October 2017

NEU Joint General Secretary at Green Party Conference

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Wednesday 1 February 2017

Kevin Courtney's letter to NUT members on Trump protests

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Dear colleagues, As you will be aware many of our members have joined the protests around the country against Donald Trump’s executiv...
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Sunday 6 November 2016

NUT-ATL amalgamation will strengthen fight against government regression

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I welcome the news that the NUT and ATL decided yesterday at separate conferences to ballot their members on  the two bodies amalagamating ...
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Thursday 1 September 2016

NUT prepared to work with other unions for SATs boycott in 2017 if government does not make changes

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From the NUT   Commenting on the publication of provisional 2016 Key Stage 2 results, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National U...
Wednesday 6 July 2016

NUT: We must say 'never again' to SATS car crash

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Kevin Courney, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers made this statement on Facebook earlier this morning: On compar...
Thursday 17 March 2016

Driive to total academisation will do nothing for the crisis engulfing schools

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Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT, has made the following statement on government plans to force all schools to become ac...
Thursday 22 October 2015

Nicky Morgan slammed for attack on anti-academy parents and communities

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  Campaigners against the forced academisation of Gladstone Park Primary School From Anti-Academies Alliance LINK   Commenting on...
Sunday 11 October 2015

Three passionate voices on the education crisis

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I tweeted the above open letter, first published in the TES, yesterday on both @WembleyMatters and @GreenEdPolicy and it has been retweet...
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Tuesday 22 April 2014

Greens describe their vision for education at official NUT fringe meeting

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Natalie Bennett spoke at a NUT Conference official fringe meeting yesterday about the Green Party's vision for education. Kevin ...
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Tuesday 17 September 2013

Councils need powers to build new schools - new campaign needs your support

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I was pleased to see Green Party leader Natalie Bennett tweet her support to the new School Places Crisis campaign to Kevin Courtney, Dep...
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Friday 14 June 2013

Jean Lambert MEP urges Gove to listen to teachers and children on primary curriculum

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  LONDON MEP Jean Lambert has called for Education Secretary Michael Gove to stop the ‘surveillance’ culture in primary schools – and i...