Example sentences of "teacher ['s] unions " in BNC.
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| 1 | HARD-PRESSED inner city comprehensive schools are likely to lose thousands of pounds a year under government plans to devolve financial management to heads , one of the largest teachers ' unions warns today . |
| 2 | TEACHERS ' UNIONS are advising their members to boycott appraisal schemes set up by schools and local authorities . |
| 3 | It was increasingly difficult for the government to rely on popular hostility towards the teachers ' unions in getting through what many saw as a direct attack on quality in the schools . |
| 4 | the solution to the underclass lies in stricter enforcement of the criminal laws , in giving tenants a stake and a say in public housing , in educational innovation opposed by teachers ' unions , in changing welfare laws so that a baby is not a ticket for an apartment separate from mom 's . |
| 5 | It was they , with the largest of the teachers ' unions , the NUT , who were largely responsible for the establishment of the Schools Council , to advise and experiment in respect of curricular content . |
| 6 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 7 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 8 | Furthermore , there was sustained opposition to vocational courses from labour interests , teachers ' unions , local authority directors of education , and from the WEA . |
| 9 | A worrying report , published by three teachers ' unions just a few minutes before national curriculum boss David Pascall issued his ‘ back to basics ’ clarion call , revealed a staggering 80,000 teachers — one in five — want to quit their jobs . |
| 10 | The teachers ' unions adopted a policy of industrial action and employed techniques appropriate to an industrial conflict . |
| 11 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
| 12 | Teachers ' unions will advise on educational issues related to Compact , and they should be informed of the aims and procedures of local Compacts . |
| 13 | Do the teachers ' unions support Compacts ? |
| 14 | Teachers ' unions have been consulted at both local and national levels . |
| 15 | The Teachers ' unions support the initiative , while recognising their responsibility to ensure that Compacts are of educational value , and that they enhance existing educational provision . |
| 16 | This approach became part of the negotiations with the teachers ' unions , who did not in principle object to appraisal , but wanted to ensure that they obtained good conditions of service and an adequate pay increase before agreeing to it . |
| 17 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |
| 18 | The move to cash planning meant that even if health service or teachers ' unions succeeded in reaching a pay settlement , there was no likelihood it would be funded in full , except by the NHS or local authorities making cuts in their non-salary budgets or employing fewer staff . |
| 19 | The teachers ' unions strongly supported the majority report . |
| 20 | Maoism , with its emphasis on the countryside surrounding the cities , has been influential , particularly in Peru , where it is strong in the teachers ' unions and is the ideology of the Shining path guerrilla movement . |
| 21 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |
| 22 | [ There was strong opposition to the ‘ licensed teacher ’ proposal from the teachers ' unions , and little action was taken to try to implement this . |
| 23 | In 1987 , the Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act abolished the existing salary scales ( see the introduction to Figures 7.5–7.8 below ) , and also the Burnham Committees , in which representatives from the teachers ' unions , the LEAs and the DES had negotiated salary structure , levels of pay and conditions of service . |
| 24 | The notion that SCOTVEC could validate private centres such as industrial training centres or trade associations to deliver National Certificate modules was greeted originally with some opposition from the teachers ' unions . |
| 25 | He has also agreed , following the practice adopted in previous years and as specifically requested by the employers and the teachers ' unions , to consult the same interested parties on the details of the draft pay document giving effect to the Government 's recommendations . |
| 26 | In protest at the teacher 's death the teachers ' unions ordered an immediate strike in all schools . |
| 27 | The secondary teachers ' unions , particularly the Joint Four , had made a great outcry about the exodus of the grammar school teachers from the profession . |
| 28 | Gloucestershire 's teachers ' unions have joined forces to fight what they say will be a disaster for the county 's children . |
| 29 | The move , allowing newly-trained teachers without a degree to teach pupils up to seven years old , will spark a fresh protest from teachers ' unions already boycotting national school tests . |
| 30 | Teachers ' unions attacked the plans as undervaluing the skills and work of early years teachers , and creating a two-tier profession . |