NUT National Executive Elections 2010

Nick Grant is...

 A current NUT National Executive member.

Active on NUT Education and Membership committees.

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 A past NUT delegate and speaker to TUC.

 Author of various articles on education policy.

Secretary of Ealing NUT and Ealing NUT Health and Safety advisor.
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A national steering group member of UNITE Against Fascism and the Right To Work campaign.
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 A local organiser for the Stop the War Coalition.

A member of the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union group.

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A co-founder of the Anti Academies Alliance.

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A regular union and public speaker on a wide range of issues. 

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For more info and to contact Nick go to secretary@ealing.nut.org.uk

and check out the Facebook group NickG4NEC
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in Outer London Region

Another School is Possible
I know from meeting NUT members across London that too many
schools are becoming more like boot camps.
Our daily work is regimented. We march to the beat of an OFSTED drum.
Kids are now just commodities - ‘Level this’ or ‘Level that’.
Whitehall nags us to hit SATs targets, but this produces many corrupt
management regimes that threaten our health.
This pressure also worsens the quality of education for students. They are
uninspired by a dry imposed curriculum and r e l e n t l e s s testing.
But many schools prove that it doesn’t have to be like this.
Nick speaking to education activists in Patiala, India.
I want to see more schools like those in Finland.
They are successful because they have no formal testing or private sector.
They start with excellent nurseries based on play run by teachers that are
very highly qualified.
I want a curriculum based on social justice and international solidarity
without false divisions between ‘academic’ and ‘vocational’ skills.
Teachers need a new professional autonomy freed from constant
observations and performance-related pay. Trust us to do the job.
Ealing NUT members marching for better pay.
An organised, active union in every school is all that stands
between hope and despair in contemporary education.
I believe that school unions will have to unite with all workers resisting
attacks on pay, jobs and pensions in the coming years, as well as acting
against youth unemployment, ecological catastrophe and war.
Why should we pay the price of bailing out greedy bankers? Cut arms
spending and quangos? Yes! Tax the rich and polluters? Of course!
I have lead union policy-making against Academies, racism, climate change
and war, and for more democracy in schools.
I have also organised and supported successful industrial action,
including strikes against workload, bullying, job cuts and privatisation.
I believe that as your National Executive member I can continue to show the
energy and vision to help you win changes that will improve your working
life in every kind of school, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality,
disability or faith. Let’s get on with the job!