Socialist Educational Association

03/06/2024

"The Tories have caused a major crisis in state education through underfunding, marketisation and central ideological control... Labour should recognise the depth of the crisis."

04/10/2023

27 public figures have added their voice to our call for .

Thank you to Dua Lipa, Kate Winslet, Ed Sheeran, Olivia Coleman, and all other celebrities backing our campaign.✊

✍️Join us – sign the open letter now👉 http://bit.ly/3yUWP3w

The Mirror No Child Left Behind

03/04/2023

"The Socialist Education Association is deeply concerned that as well as the pressure the inspectorate puts on schools Ofsted is now imposing a narrow ideology of education."

29/03/2023

"Learning to pursue active citizenship and to gain worthwhile employment" Ian Duckett | The Morning Star

IAN DUCKETT dissects the government's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision plan

Ian Duckett is a Norwich-based educator, member of national executive committee of Socialist Educational Association and EC member of Norfolk NEU.

IAN DUCKETT dissects the government's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision plan

27/03/2023

The SEA adopted an emergency motion renewing our calls for OFSTED to be abolished following the tragic su***de of Ruth Perry. Head of Caversham School. The motion was passed unanimously at an NEC meeting held in Manchester on Saturday 25 March.

12/02/2023

Your MPs read local papers and so do your neighbours. Writing a letter to your local paper will spread the word about Free School Meals for All where you live. It will put pressure on the Government to stop blocking the Bill and share our movement in your community.

Don’t worry if you haven’t done something like this before. Come along to our support call at 7pm on Wednesday 15 February. You’ll be with other parents, educators, and concerned community members, and we’ll do it together.

We’ll give you ideas and take you through each step to write and submit a short letter to the editor right on the call.

No Child Left Behind National Education Union

I’m writing to my local paper to share my reasons for supporting Free School Meals for All. 7pm, Wednesday 15 February. Will you join me?

28/12/2022

Give us back our schools | The Morning Star

Although it is important to win on pay, public-sector unions need to start planning how to end profiteering and bring public services back in-house and to make them accountable to local communities, argue MELANIE GRIFFITHS and IAN DUCKETT

Although it is important to win on pay, public-sector unions need to start planning how to end profiteering and bring public services back in-house and to make them accountable to local communities, argue MELANIE GRIFFITHS and IAN DUCKETT

08/12/2022

SEA's GUBOS Campaign Our campaign against academisation enters its second year with just over half of all pupils now attend academies rather than Local Authority schools. Academies are independent but state-funded schools outside of council control. Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) are groups of academies, varying in size, where each individual academy has lost its status as a legal entity and has been subsumed into the trust....

SEA’s GUBOS Campaign Our campaign against academisation enters its second year with just over half of all pupils now attend academies rather than Local Authority schools. Academies are indepe…

06/12/2022

‘Insightful’ ‘Pithy’ ‘Knowledgeable’ and ‘Intellectual’ are some of the first words that spring to my mind when I think of Mike and his involvement in the SEA. My wife Sheila and I first became friends with Mike and Christine when we started attending events and meetings of the SEA (the Socialist Educational Association) more than twenty years ago. Mike and Christine were already longstanding members at that point and they introduced us to the, at times, somewhat obscure inner workings of the organisation....

‘Insightful’  ‘Pithy’  ‘Knowledgeable’ and ‘Intellectual’ are some of the first words that spring to my mind when I think of Mike and his involvement in the SEA. My wife Sheila and I fi…

06/12/2022

Ten SEA members have contributed to the latest issue of FORUM around a potentially trust-led educational system. FORUM is an academic journal promoting comprehensive and progressive education and published by Lawrence Wishart. FORUM Volume 64 (2022) Issue 3 Not only do we voice our opposition to the government's intention to impose a fully academised system by the end of the decade but provides a critique of the 2022 White Paper....

Ten SEA members have contributed to the latest issue of FORUM around a potentially trust-led educational system. FORUM is an academic journal promoting comprehensive and progressive education and p…

24/11/2022

The Guardian [the long read] ‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: Have we been getting playthings all wrong? | Alex Blasdel

For decades we have been using toys to cram learning into playtime – and toys have increasingly been marketed as helping to turn children into prosperous, high-achieving adults. But it turns out this approach is all wrong

The long read: For decades we have been using toys to cram learning into playtime – and toys have increasingly been marketed as helping to turn children into prosperous, high-achieving adults. But it turns out this approach is all wrong