REFORM UK is a racist and far-right political party led by a “pound shop Donald Trump,” thundered National Education Union (NEU) general secretary Daniel Kebede today at the annual conference of ...

MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three ...

EDUCATION unions launched a blistering attack today over the use of private agencies supplying teachers to schools in Wales and the government’s failure to act on pay. School leaders’ union NAHT Cymru ...

AN ISRAELI air strike hit a field hospital in the Gaza Strip today, killing a medic and wounding nine other people. The Kuwaiti Field Hospital is in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands of ...

THE US government is freezing billions of dollars in funding for Harvard University after the institution vowed to defy its demands to limit activism on campus.

The Hillsborough Law, promised ahead of the disaster’s 36th anniversary today, was expected to introduce a “duty of candour” requiring proactive co-operation with official investigations. Campaigners ...

A SECOND US aircraft carrier is operating in Middle Eastern waters in the run-up to the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Associated Press ...

ALGERIA has announced the expulsion of 12 French officials, plunging relations between the two nations to a new low. A Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said that the consular agents had been given ...

LECTURERS at Robert Gordon University (RGU) have taken strike action as they fight compulsory redundancies. Managers at the Aberdeen institution have brought forward two voluntary severance schemes ...

HUNGARY’S parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the government to ban public LGBT events. The amendment, which required a two-thirds majority, was approved on Monday, with ...

Health workers in England and Wales will be asked if they will be prepared to strike if their delayed pay deal fails to match rising living costs, Unison announced today. The pay review body’s ...

TEACHERS could strike this autumn if Labour fails to offer a funded and above-inflation pay award by June, the leader of Britain’s largest education union said yesterday. National Education Union’s ...