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| |  Monday, 6 January, 2003, 11:31 GMT  From the floor BBC News Online's extensive coverage of this year's annual conferences of the biggest education unions, in reverse date order.  Fairer funding call for schoolsA teachers' union leader calls for a more equal funding system for schools in England and Wales.  EIS backs boycott ballotScotland's biggest teaching union is to ballot its members on a boycott of all new secondary school initiatives.  �100k plus perks for 'hyperheads'?A head teachers' union wants �100,000 salaries and performance bonuses for the new generation of heads who take over failing schools.  'Life-saving' researchers see no futureTwo thirds of medical researchers on fixed-term contracts say they lack a career structure.  School violence protection callScotland's second biggest teaching union backs calls for more protection for teachers amid reports of an increase in violence.  Strike threat over five-term yearA teachers' union says it will take strike action if schools seek to impose a five-term year.  Teachers demand strike ballotTeachers' representatives back a one-day strike over performance-related pay - but their leader says "no".  Call to modernise unionsATL leader Peter Smith says teaching unions must "modernise" if they are to influence the future of state education.  'Three-day week' threat for schoolsWhile the government wants schools to open longer hours, a union leader warns that a teacher shortage could mean fewer lessons. | |
 Pay turmoilThe merit money saga   Reduced to tears  Spotlight on bullies  Class violenceKnife-wielding pupils  Had enoughWhy Wilf Matos is quitting  Chariot of fireTeachers' champion under attack  SnubbedEducation minister faces walkout  Section 28Teachers denounce homophobic bullying  Passing GoUnion leader ridicules education 'Monopoly' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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