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?

Richard Garner on the recent efforts by the Ministry of Defence to distribute propaganda to school-children, in the form of lesson plans about the Iraq war.

Barry Mason looks at some of the details of the Primary Review, a major report on the state of primary education in Britain today.

The government’s ‘literacy strategy’ takes all the fun out of reading and doesn’t work. Michael Rosen proposes an alternative approach.

In its Annual General Meeting last Wednesday, the University College London Students’ Union voted to sever links with the military and to prohibit recruitment at union-organised events.

Andy Mullen marks 20 years since the publication of Chomsky and Herman’s seminal work on the media – Manufacturing Consent. He asks why the model is still neglected in the UK.

With student debt spiralling and higher education being reduced to a commodity, Laurie Penny calls for a change of course

Tim Street in a UK Watch exclusive on the increasing militarisation of British universities, which has seen world-class institutions selling their expertise to improve Britain’s warmaking capabilities, and the growing movement to oppose this.

The IWCA on the increasing inequalities in Britain’s education system.

New research shows that social exclusion is the raison d’etre of grammar schools and faith schools: they accelerate elitism and stall secularism. Beatrix Campbell reports.

Liz Smith looks at a report showing how the education system is failing a generation of British youth.

Britain’s strange private school system causes immeasurable harm, says George Monbiot.

Robert Stevens on the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s recent announcement of severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.