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Remembering Anthony
Writer and musician Benjamin Zephaniah (left) performed several of his poems at the sixth annual Anthony Walker memorial lecture, held in Birmingham during Black History Month in October.
Dr Gee Walker, Anthony’s mother, gave an update on the work of the Anthony Walker Foundation, set up in her son’s memory after he was killed in a racist attack in 2005.
Keeping in touch
Over 80 retired teacher members attended this year’s NUT retired teachers’ convention to hear speakers including writer and campaigner Melissa Benn, the TUC’s Iain Murray, NUT President Marilyn Harrop and the NUT’s Celia Dignan speaking about the impact of Government policies on education and the NUT/NASUWT campaign to protect teachers.
Competition for our times
The NUT is again sponsoring the schools competition for all young people organised by Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC). The organisers are looking for original pieces of artwork, short stories, poetry, music and fi lm with an anti- racism theme. There are eight categories and many individual prizes – plus a laptop for the overall winner’s school, thanks to the NUT. Winners will be invited to an awards ceremony at Chelsea Football Club’s Stamford Bridge ground.
To find out more email
gav@theredcard.org Registration is free and entries are open until March 2013.
Moving movie
Veteran film-maker Ken Loach held a Q&A session with London school pupils at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, in September.
The event, supported by the NUT and Film Education, followed a screening of his fi lm Navigators as part of the fi rst London Labour Film Festival. It explores the impact on railway workers of rail privatisation in the 1990s.
Ken told the teenagers they were paying the price for the culture of privatisation, with little job security and mass youth unemployment. He spoke against privatising schools and urged the youngsters to join a trade union.
NUT launches legal challenge on GCSEs
The NUT and an alliance of schools, unions and professional bodies have mounted a legal challenge to exam regulator Ofqual and the Edexcel and AQA exam boards over the English GCSE marking fi asco after grade boundaries were changed – without warning – midway through the school year. The NUT is the only classroom teacher union involved in the legal challenge.
The three bodies involved refused to regrade the papers, prompting the legal challenge. NUT General Secretary Christine Blower and Deputy General Secretary Kevin Courtney discussed the issue with Education Secretary Michael Gove in September, but did not get a satisfactory response.
If you have examples of unfairness in this scandal, email the NUT at
GCSE@nut.org.uk to add your evidence.
The Union is also calling on members to email their MP to call for a regrading and to sign the e-petition calling for a full enquiry. Follow the links at the NUT website
www.teachers.org.uk/campaigns/GCSE-scandal
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