Sandra Lee, UNITE rep at Leicester University said: “We have had our pay effectively frozen for years. Now senior managers are paying themselves large bonuses whilst 10% of our staff don’t earn the living wage. As far as we are concerned whether teach medicine or law, whether you discovered Richard IIIrd or whether you keep […]
By Simon Robinson, Leicester NUT, personal capacity Rushey Mead School is a large secondary school in Leicester. It has been an ‘outstanding’ school for years and has strong links to the local community. It is also a brand new school building, one of the last few to get this funding before the government pulled the plug. […]
By Heather Rawling Life member NUT It has emerged that the now suspended and discredited head Tim Luckcock (yes I have spelt his name correctly) and the governing body spent over £48,000 on legal fees in the last year — a phenomenal amount for a school. This would have paid for the classroom teachers they […]
By a Resident of Leicester A Man of Humble Beginnings charts the life of Leicester socialist, Amos Sherriff. Although originally written for four actors, it received its premiere as a one man show performed by its author, Tony Church, with recorded voices and photographs at the Upstairs at the Western theatre in the city on […]
By Tony Church Leicester Everybody’s Reading festival is performing my play A Man of Humble Beginnings, about pioneering Leicester socialist, Amos Sherriff. Amos was born in a Leicester slum in 1856. Sent to work at six years old, he could not read or write until, at 22, the Salvation Army taught him to do so. Amos […]
By Heather Rawling Life member NUT Young teachers proved Beth Davis, NUT president wrong when they took strike action and demonstrated to defend education and teachers pay and condition. At a Leicester City NUT meeting she said young teachers weren’t interested in striking to defend pensions. Yet in a rousing speech at the demo rally, […]
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