Schools to be shut by head teachers' strike

Head teachers are to go on their first-ever national strike, closing almost all of the country's primary schools and hundreds of secondary schools, their leader predicted last night.


Schools throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland face the threat of closure on 30 November – the day of a scheduled strike by public-sector staff and civil servants against plans to cut their pensions, Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said in an interview with The Independent.   Read More