ORGANISING ACADEMY

It could be anything, depending on what day you read this. Maybe they’ve published edition 17 of the list of cancelled school building projects; or forgotten they were the government whilst standing at the despatch box; or proposed a John Lewis style part-privatisation of the moon.

It’s a government of the rich, but a poor example [...]

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Since landing here  in SERTUC from planet Not-A-Clue in January I have been keeping myself very busy but often with the nagging impression of achieving  little. 
 This doesn’t reflect particularly badly on me.  According to everyone I’ve asked, this is normal for project work.
A lot of the early period has been taken up with mapping and then with planning and [...]

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Thanet Love Music Hate Racism, in association with Thanet NUT, are holding a massive festival in Margate on Sat Sept 11th!
At a well attended meeting of local teachers, Thanet NUT Association voted unanimously to donate £2000 to the anti-racism project.
NUT Organiser Andrew Robbins commented after the meeting, “Today’s historic vote by Thanet NUT sends a [...]

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Back to Lincolnshire again, where the road beneath you is the highest point in the landscape. This time a bit of experience, and a bit more planning, and every visit was a success. Even where the head wanted to turn us away they couldn’t.
For this visit hundreds of letters, scores of posters and dozens of [...]

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I had this exact conversation on Sunday:
Ditzy mate: “You work at the TUC: whats going on with the aeroplanes then?”
Me: “Oh its not about the strike anymore. Its about the giant volcanic dust cloud”
Ditzy mate: “What?!”

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At one school we had a very friendly deputy head pop in to ensure that everything was alright. Once she was in, she wasn’t for leaving. In the end we had to have a polite word.

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Ever heard of a Gantt chart? No neither had I!  But a Gantt chart I was asked for and a Gantt chart I have produced.
For the uninitiated this is a way of showing when different parts of a project should be started or finished. It looks a load of lines or boxes on a calendar. [...]

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I thought it might be worth passing on this heartening story about “M” a Haringay mother who was initailly refused council housing but won decent accomadation for her family afer occupying the council offices with just a small group of friends and supporters.  The full story is on the  Haringay Solidarity Group website: http://www.haringey.org.uk/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117:housing-action-success&catid=38:housing&Itemid=57 .

This story illustrates [...]

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Well it’s almost upon us, the first Academy Organiser session at the Ruskin College in Oxford. Really cant wait to meet up with everyone again and share some of the experiences i have had the past 3 weeks. 3 weeks!! Blimey that has gone so quick.
My sponsoring Union have been brilliant, have been out on [...]

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10th January 2010 –
This will be my first post on the TUC blog and as someone new to blogging I’m not quite sure what to write.
After finding out I had been successful in getting into the candidate pool this year and then later with the NUT I was ecstatic! Although I don’t have much experience [...]

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