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Ballot Papers now out- vote Dave Brinson #1

Oct 30, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Ballot papers were dispatched on Wednesday, and have begun arriving on members’ doormats this morning. Please take a minute to fill in your ballot form, and return it: it’s YOUR union, make your…Read more…

Oct 30, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Supply Teachers- next steps in the Agency campaign- and a reminder of how we actually got here !

Oct 29, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

NUT members staged a great lobby of the main supply teachers’ agencies yesterday. While I couldn’t be there in person, I am proud that East Sussex was represented.  I have long campaigned for…Read more…

Oct 29, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Time for common sense, not spot-fines nonsense.

Oct 27, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

The requirement of parents to ensure that their children attend school “regularly” is nothing new: it isn’t a Blair-era piece of government control, it dates back to the 1944 Education Act. This was…Read more…

Oct 27, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Asbestos: Remove it NOW.

Oct 19, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

We’ve been saying it for years, and finally an All-Party Parliamentary Group agrees we’re right. Asbestos must be removed from schools.

More than 90% of schools in my Division have asbestos present….Read more…

Oct 19, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Workload: Hunt lets the cat out of the bag !

Oct 7, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Tackling teacher workload has been a major campaign for the NUT for some years. We identified the growing problem during the Blair/Brown era, and saw this explode during Michael Gove’s poisonous…Read more…

Oct 7, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Teachers’ Pay for a Teacher’s Day

Sep 5, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

One of the first campaigns I organised when I became a Division Secretary was to fight East Sussex County Council’s unilateral decision to close their “Supply Pool” arrangements. Although we gained…Read more…

Sep 5, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Child Poverty- Still a national disgrace

Jun 29, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

I have lost track of the number of Tory-leaning folks I have known over the years who have trained as teachers and then undergone a swift political conversion.  Not because the staffroom is…Read more…

Jun 29, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Government wrong on testing says NUT… and the CBI

Jun 23, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

We fought off Michael Gove’s first attempts to impose the EBacc as a narrow and prescriptive exam by building the widest and most diverse coalition of voices in a campaign.  Once again, we see…Read more…

Jun 23, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Cameron’s Equality appointments: the latest Whitehall Farce

May 12, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

Equalities has always been central to my trade unionism: if we are not about equality, then we are nothing.

The new Tory Government has said that it thinks equality (other than economic equality, of…Read more…

May 12, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

After the General Election…

May 10, 2015By Dave Brinson: NUT Report

The NUT is party politically independent and always has been.  However, like many NUT members, I was involved in the General Election campaigns, fighting hard to avoid the outcome that we got on…Read more…

May 10, 2015Dave Brinson: NUT Report

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