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The article discusses meetings of Great Britain's National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) held in April 2012. Particular focus is given to possible labor strikes and other industrial action discussed at the meetings. Details related to the timing of the strikes and teacher attitudes towards a proposed regional pay system are also presented.

The article discusses a demonstration protesting British government cuts to public sector pensions held in London, England, on June 30, 2011, by members of British teachers unions. Demonstrators from unions including the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Associations of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), and the University and College Union (UCU) disagree with British government proposals to cut pensions and raise the minimum retirement age for teachers.

The article reports that sixth form teachers at Park College in Sussex Down, England, believe their pay will be reduced and hours extended if they are forced to sign a lecturers' contract. According to the article, staff at the school in both the National Union of Teachers and the National Union of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers do not want to switch to a lecturers' contract and have stated that they will strike. The differences in working conditions for each are discussed.

The article reports that several of the biggest education stories of the year 2008 in Great Britain were first reported by this journal. The concerns about the marking of national tests led to a nomination for the article's author Warwick Mansell for the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. The journal's coverage of the National Union of Teachers' national strike revealed teachers' division over the action. Information is provided for the journal's stories on child protection.

The article provides an overview of educational events in Great Britain for the year 2008. The examination marking catastrophe by the U.S. Educational Testing Service of the country's key stage three tests resulted in the education secretary Ed Balls announcing the test itself was to be abandoned. A national walkout by members of the National Union of Teachers over a below-inflation pay deal over three years is recounted. Information is given for a fundamental curriculum reform.

The article offers educational news briefs. British nationals Daud Hassan Ali and Rehana Ahmed have been killed in Somalia, where they were working as teachers. Statistics collected by the British government show that more than three hundred primary school locations have been sold since 1998. Great Britain's Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) and Public and Commercial Services union will join the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in their April 2008 strike.