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BBC5 Live: Are teaching unions fully representative of their membership?

Posted on 31st March 201315th February 2019 by Andrew Lifford

Edapt’s CEO John Roberts discusses the proposed strike action with John Dixon from the National Union of Teachers and a host of classroom teachers and parents on BBC 5 Live’s Tony Livesey morning show.

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Andrew Lifford

Andrew Lifford is a former secondary school teacher, teacher trainer and education researcher. He has worked at Portland School, Google, The Key, Researchers in Schools and Teach First. The views in this post do not represent the views of Edapt.

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