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Blair hails city academies

Tony Blair has today declared that the government’s controversial city academies programme is thriving. The prime minister said “parent power” was driving the scheme, which could see 200 of the academies in place or under construction by 2010, under government plans. “It is not government edict that is determining the fate of city academies, but… Read more »

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Super-union to fight back

A ‘super-union’ made up of three of Britain’s largest trade unions will give them more power against an increasingly remote Labour leadership, union activists said today. Secretary general of Amicus Derek Simpson said joining forces with the GMB and T&G unions would also better equip them in the global economy. At a heated fringe meeting… Read more »