Education // Notes From Below

Picture of a panel at Labor Notes

Keep going
by Eleanor Davies / Oct. 16, 2026

A picture of the old and new St Paul's Way School

Times change, but the tendency to attack the St Paul's Way workforce remains
by Former SPW NUT Committee / Aug. 12, 2026

A large group of teachers gather on a city street in Chicago, holding protest signs and banners; some wear red shirts and yellow vests, while bystanders and media observe.

UCORE: School Struggle and Strikes in the US
by Ellen David Friedman / March 13, 2026

"The Schoolmaster" woodprint by Adriaen van Ostade. The print shows a teacher in a broad-brimmed hat leans over a table, guiding three children with a book.

Situating the Work of Education
by Jack, Alex / March 13, 2026

A screenshot from the film Diario di un maestro shows a young boy writes on a large handwritten list pinned to a wall. The list shows names and information in a table format.

Editorial: ‘But they struck in sympathy’
by Notes from Below / March 13, 2026

Street view of a residential area with school buildings, parked cars, and a tall tower in the background.

Day in the Life Working in the Factory School
by Eleanor Davies / March 13, 2026

Fighting for our class: Working and Organising in Further Education
by A former FE worker / March 13, 2026

Protesters stand behind a barrier, holding signs advocating for disabled civil rights. Some of their hand positions indicate they are using sign language.

A Right to Language? Working in Deaf Education
by An Anonymous SEN Worker / March 13, 2026

A group of union reps stand together holding a "Disarm Education" banner with raised fists.

Turning the Tide: Organising Against Militarism in Schools
by Disarm Education / March 13, 2026

A close up picture of a teaching assistant holding a textbook up, whilst a student completes an exercise.

‘A Lesson in Class Struggle’: Working in a South London School
by Matthew / March 13, 2026

Hundreds of striking lecturers and academic staff revolt against the UCU union leadership outside its London HQ during the 2018 national pensions strike.

Lessons for Unison #2
by Solan Gundersen / Feb. 2, 2026

One of the main buildings at SOAS campus

Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Academic Labour Regime: Why Our Grassroots Organising Lost
by Basit Weber / Sept. 9, 2025

Working in Schools, 2016-2021
by Jack Park / Oct. 11, 2024

Try again: on GCSE resits in further education
by Tom White / Sept. 9, 2024

A group of people gathers at a bus stop holding red flags with "Unite" printed, under a sign announcing "due to industrial action, all services are suspended. We apologise for any inconvenience".

Strike Action Unites Northern Ireland
by Pádraig de Cléir / April 24, 2024

Empty classroom with rows of grey desks and chairs, softly lit by natural light from large windows.

The Kids Are Alright: A School Workers’ Inquiry
by A group of school workers / April 24, 2024

The T Levels Mess
by Tom White / Sept. 26, 2023

Labour Casualisation in UK Higher Education (Part 2)
by Roberto Mozzachiodi / Aug. 21, 2023

New Strategies, New Orthodoxies
by James Eastwood / Aug. 1, 2023

Short of the Long Haul (Part 2)
by Jack Davies, Sarah Mason / July 28, 2023

Short of the Long Haul (Part 1)
by Jack Davies, Sarah Mason / July 11, 2023

Minority Strikes Can Work
by Bethany Kosmicki, Matt Ford / July 3, 2023

Winning a Bargaining Unit for All Graduate Workers
by Logan E. Mann / July 3, 2023

Reflections on a Teaching Assistant Strike
by Michael Mueller, Lucy Peterson / July 3, 2023

Lessons from the New School Strike
by Andy Battle / July 3, 2023

A Reps Guide to Winning the Schools Strike
by A group of NEU reps / May 11, 2023

Huge crowd at a strike raly holds colorful signs and banners advocating for better education and fair pay for teachers. A large "National Education Union" balloon floats above.

The NEU strike - Winning a rank-and-file led union
by Vik Chechi-Ribeiro / April 28, 2023

A group of university staff on strike, wearing pink hats and holding UCU signs supporting the strikes, march through a city street.

The University Strikes, as seen from Birkbeck Library
by Anonymous library worker / April 28, 2023

Protest banner reading "Indefinite Strike Now. The University Worker" held by university workers.

UCU and the University Worker: Experiments with a bulletin
by The University Worker / April 28, 2023

The Education Sector
by Notes from Below / March 21, 2023

Strike Report from a Higher Education Worker
by Anonymous HE worker / Oct. 7, 2022

Class Composition Project Education Working Group
by Notes from Below / Oct. 5, 2021

The Ceding State Sedition
by Evan Zilber / March 19, 2021

Organising Agency Teaching Assistants
by Two anonymous Teaching Assistants / Oct. 7, 2020

Strikes in the Time of Coronavirus
March 19, 2020

It's time to close our schools
March 16, 2020

A University Administrator Inquiry
by Thomas Litterick / Sept. 29, 2019

Precarity Beyond the Gig
by Tamara Kneese / June 8, 2019

Teaching (Class) Composition
by Robert Ovetz / June 23, 2018