‘No more academies. No more cuts’

A Coventry teacher speaks out before NUT conference

Nicky Downes

The annual conference of the National Union of Teachers begins today in Brighton. Socialist Party member and NUT activist Nicky Downes is a delegate from Coventry. Speaking to us whilst travelling to this key meeting of teacher trade unionists she told us

The education system in this country is well and truly broken. We need to fight back just like the junior doctors are doing to save the NHS. If this doesn’t happen we will continue to have a system that values profit above learning. A system that believes anyone can teach and the best education comes from a book or computer programme flogged by Pearson. No more academies. No more cuts. A qualified teacher in every class.

Jane Nellist, also from Coventry, and a member of the national executive of the NUT has written an article calling on the unions to act against the academies onslaught. It can be read here

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