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Education News: School Terms - Call for strike over term changes

Teachers in Hampshire are being asked to vote for strike action to protest against proposals by the county council to change the pattern of the school year.

Eamonn O'Kane, general secretary of teaching union NASUWT, which sent a letter to members last week, said: "Any such changes should be at a national level made to a standard pattern."

At the beginning of March, education secretary Charles Clarke said he supported a standardised framework of six more evenly sized terms.

NASUWT is in a similar dispute with Essex County Council.

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