SchNEWS reports on campaigners against a new city academy in Wembley, who are keeping up their protest despite the camp they set-up being evicted on Wed 16th July.

Hank Roberts reviews The Great City Academy Fraud, a guide to the inadequacies and inequities of New Labour’s favourite education gimmick

James Meadows describes the impact of harsh new employment conditions on teachers at Harlow College. A massive reduction in wages for many, the introduction of a new unqualified ‘tutor’ role, the imposition of an effective 56-hour working week and reduction of holidays from 45 to 30 days a year led to the teachers taking strike action, whilst Harlow student’s learning experience has rapidly declined.

Harvey Thompson and Linda Slattery describe the detrimental effects of continual testing on school children, which leads to a narrow curriculum, increased stress and a sense of inadequacy that may cause individuals to drop-out of education at 17.

Hicham Yezza, a University of Nottingham member of staff, faces the threat of deportation to Algeria. On June 2, he was forcibly moved to the Citadel detention centre at Western Heights, near Dover. Yezza and Nottingham student Rizwaan Sabir were both arrested on May 14 under the Terrorism Act 2000. Robert Stevens reports.

Alana Lentin suggests that the case of Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir raises important issues to do with academic freedom.

In the last 12 months, 19 young people under the age of 27, many of them in their teens, have committed suicide in and around South Wales. Dave O’Sullivan explores this saddening trend by considering how young people today are too often regarded as a problem, not as society’s greatest asset and its future.

The Free Hicham Yezza Campaign describe their protest against the arrest and threatened deportation of a Nottingham university student for downloading an Al-Qaida training manual for research purposes.

The University and College Union yesterday passed three resolutions in solidarity with the Palestinians, which are reproduced in full below.

Nottingham University students describe how the arrest on “anti-terror” charges of a student who had downloaded a publicly available Al-Qaida training manual has created a prevalent climate of fear on campus and constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom.

Mark Evans looks at the educational priorities for a trade union movement struggling to revitalise itself.

The International Students for Social Equality suggests that the government’s encouragement of “marketisation” in higher education has led to rising student debt and reductions in teaching quality.

About 200,000 teachers turned out for the strike called this week by the NUT. The World Socialist Web Site reports on the reaction.

Liz Smith and Linda Slattery call on NUT members to do what their leadership has refused to do – oppose the collaboration with the government by other teachers’ unions and campaign for joint action by all teacher.

Cuts in the UK’s science budget will cause the closure of key scientific programmes and facilities writes Robert Stevens

The Higher Education Funding Council wants loyalty from academics to their institutions. Alexandre Borovik suggests that academics should be loyal above all to their disciplines and their communities.

The Government is making further cuts in state funding for higher education – and encouraging business to fill the gap. Robert Stevens reports.

The National Union of Students is preparing to transform itself into a think-tank, effectively abandoning its role as a campaigning organisation and significantly reducing the influence of students on union policy, writes Yuri Prasad.

NUS: managing apathy?