Jude Jackson#Educators at #WQE sixth form college in Leicester hold a picket on the first of a three day strike this year in a bid to gain pay parity with academised sixth form colleges. But where is the demand to broaden the strike for unity across #education? #NEU
Strike by teachers over pay at 32 sixth form colleges in England continues into New Year
Sixth form colleges that have transformed into academies (state-funded but privately run) have been granted funding for a paltry teacher pay rise through the post-16 schools budget grant. But the remaining non-academised sixth form colleges have been given nothing at all.