Commissioning: GPs must consider “public” option
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Stroud Against the Cuts (SATC), through their “Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public” campaign, have scored a victory against NHS privatisation.
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The class war at the top of British universities
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There is a rift emerging not just within British universities, but between them.
My life at work: overheated, overworked, underpaid
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Sam Carrow is a catering worker in a hospital in north west England.
What “Free Schools” mean
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24 free schools have opened in the UK and many more are planned to open next September.
Serco, privatisation and Alex Salmond's SNP
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The SNP government in Holyrood has announced the privatising of ferry services connecting the Orkney and Shetland islands with the mainland.
Profiteers bleeding the NHS
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Last Tuesday, private health giants Capita and United Healthcare introduced themselves to London’s leading GPs with Andrew Lansley as matchmaker.
East London school workers strike against cuts
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Teachers and support staff at Central Foundation Girls School in East London will strike on Wednesday 25 April as part of a battle to resist redundancies and pay cuts.
“Edubusiness” vultures circle
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This week owners and administrators of private capital will assemble in London to share ideas about how state education can be further opened up to their insurgency.
New sell-off threat for Royal Mail
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Royal Mail could be sold off (entirely or in part) by 2013 if the government’s latest scheme goes ahead.
Educating for capitalism's needs
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In School Wars Melissa Benn lays out in details the increasing privatisation of Britain’s schools, the scale of an impending disaster.