The University and College Union (UCU) said teaching staff would find out the details of the redundancies in the next week.

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This allows them to freely replace underperforming teachers and quickly build the best teaching staff they can, with absolutely no regard to senority, union work rules, union grievance processes, or anything else.

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But another teaching union, the NASUWT, said the government could cut staff in federation schools.

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