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Monday, 6 January, 2003, 11:35 GMT

Education on the agenda
Shortages, workload, the future of comprehensives - plenty to debate at the education unions' annual conferences.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND

Teachers vote for boycott
Delegates from Scotland's largest teaching union vote unanimously for a boycott of internal assessments on Higher Still courses.

HEAD TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

Demands on governors 'too high'
School governor positions are becoming increasingly difficult to fill because of the onerous duties put upon them, head teachers warn.

Heads call for 'beacon' parents
Schools urged to employ bursars
Pupils use mobiles to tell on teacher
Heads predict recruitment disaster
'Third World' jibe by head teachers
Sixth form overload 'shambles'
Heads threaten action over workload
Heads want slice of privatisation profit
Violent parents in 'school rage'
'Rights culture' fuels school violence

UNIVERSITY TEACHERS

Universities 'face staff shortages'
Universities and colleges in the UK are facing "unprecedented" difficulties in recruiting staff, according to the lecturers' union Natfhe.

Lecturers vote to ballot on pay deal
Academics call for red tape cut
UK universities 'in the red'
Promise to widen university access

SCOTTISH SECONDARY TEACHERS

McConnell hears exams fears
"Grave concerns" about arrangements for dealing with this year's exam results are raised by Scotland's second largest teaching union.

SCHOOLMASTERS AND WOMEN TEACHERS

Push for fairer school funding
Teachers call for a new system of funding schools to end what they say are inequalities between different areas.

'Radical' reform for inspections
Pupils to lose right of appeal - May
Teachers oppose further inclusion
Teachers call for medical support
Unions unite over 35-hour week
Call for redress for innocent teachers
Teacher unions unite over workload
End exclusion targets say teachers
Unruly pupils 'turn people off teaching'

NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS

Teachers' union 'gets real'
An alliance of moderate teachers' unions will win public support for transforming pay and conditions, says Doug McAvoy.

Teachers' image conscious future
Teachers vote for appraisal boycott
Violent pupils 'must be expelled'
Lib Dems back 35-hour teachers' week
Teachers demand 35-hour week
Head's 'nightmare journey'
Blunkett turns on teacher hecklers
Tories attack teacher unions
Teachers helped against false claims
Teachers' workload to be reviewed
Teachers demand shorter week

ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS AND LECTURERS

Blair aims for public school funding levels
The prime minister has said he wants secondary schools in England to be funded at the same level as independent schools.

Teachers wooed by Blair
Student teachers grade Blair
Inspections shake-up in schools
Call for 'sin bins' for three year olds
New exams 'stress out' sixth formers
Teacher shortages 'will worsen'
Sects school funding warning
Funds not charity say teachers
Teachers want action on 35-hour week
Overworked? A teacher's story

SECONDARY HEADS ASSOCIATION

Heads attack funding 'cut'
Many head teachers say they are facing a budget cut in real terms for the next financial year, but the government says they are mistaken.

Flexible teacher training booms
Hague targets school red tape
Heads defend comprehensives
Kennedy calls for end to teacher crisis
Teacher crisis the 'Everest of peaks'
Parents warned: No 'aggro' in school
Heads' concern over 3Rs drive
Heads demand end to teacher crisis
Schools get �100m for teacher bonuses