immune to the venom of hatred to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. more news at the top of the hour. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. his guest this week as mary bousted, one of the teaching union leaders. hello and welcome to political thinking. it was another week when children and parents had to wait anxiously for an early morning text or an email to tell them whether their classroom or their school would open that day. thanks not to covid 19, not to a big dump of snow, but to strike action by members of the national education union this week on political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone in the news, my guest is the joint general secretary of that union, the neu, mary bousted. she is notjust the general secretary of the largest education union in europe, she has been a leader of a trade union for longer than almost anybody else in the country. she w
Than they ever thought possible. Whats that doing in here . Thats a plate of mashed potato. We are lucky that trump will provide most of the jokes for the foreseeable future. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. If youre a pupil or teacher in a school where subjects are being cut, do get in touch with us. Have you studied or taught one of the less popular subjects like german . Does it matter if the fewer people get to take it in the future . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Its been announced that British Telecom and its openreach service, which runs the uks Broadband Infrastructure, are to be legally separated. Telecoms regulator, ofcom, says openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy. Ofcom had been pushing for the move following complaints about poor levels of service and had threatened to force bt to l
i ll go into teacher training, do that for four or five years and then come back into school. and i d really like to end up as a head teacher. that s what i wanted to do. but you did, in fact, end up as a union leader and a surprise one, a union that no longer exists. it merged with the old nut, the national union of teachers, your union, the association of teachers and lecturers. when i was growing up as a journalist, you were regarded as the right wing union, the moderate union, the contrast with those who were often portrayed in the popular press of the time as the loony left controlling the nut. was that a conscious decision? that s where you felt more comfortable? well, i was a member of the nut when i was at school, when i was working in schools. what happened about the atljob was that in 2002 they advertised in the guardian for a general secretary, and i had then worked in universities for about ten years, three universities, and thought, well, i know the policy environment ver
employees immediately called police and the vending machine had to get him out safely. do you let your children play on your ipad? you might be doing them harm. the association of teachers and lecturers telling parents to put away those tablets. kids who use ipads are not developing dexterity to write or to play with building blocks. put away those tablets at least for a few hours a day they say. is there ever such a thing as a free meal? the i.r.s. now considering taxing work perks like food and gym membership. whatever i walk away with here is free. like in the movie the tax free, but the i.r.s. is reportedly considering whether the freebies are taxable. if they say yes companies