Less than one in eighteen Greater Manchester Police officers are disciplined for proven acts of misconduct, figures obtained by MULE suggest.
On 27 July the Academies Act 2010 came into force, beginning a radical overhaul of England’s education system. The Act allows any school to apply to become an Academy, a government-funded school able to opt out from local educational authority (LEA) control and operate independently. Education Secretary Michael Gove told the Commons that the plan […]
For centuries Manchester has been home to a thriving culture of campaigning, radicalism, and direct action. Andy Lockhart spoke to Sarah Irving, co-founder of the Manchester Radical History Collective, a website run by politically active locals dedicated to unearthing a rarely seen side to the city.
We asked Steve from the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) what his organisation was doing about Fitness to Work and discriminatory behaviour more generally.
On 15 July members of University and College Lecturers’ Union (UCU) employed by the College’s Offender Learning programme, which runs a large portion of the UK’s prison education service, voted overwhelmingly for strike action over the imposition of new contracts. This follows strikes across Manchester campuses by UCU lecturers on 30 June, with further action […]
On July 14, Councillor Mary Di Mauro sparked controversy in a City Council meeting by challenging Council Leader Richard Leese over comments he made after being arrested and cautioned for assaulting his teenage step-daughter. The incident enraged Labour councillors who demanded that Cllr Di Mauro apologise to “every victim of domestic abuse in the city” […]
