Education Secretary Nicky Morgan greeted with jeers of laughter and shouts of 'rubbish' at NASUWT event by teachers

Detention for you lot! Britain's Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is heckled by teachers while union ballots for strike action over plan to turn state-run schools into academies 

Morgan greeted with laughter and shouts of 'rubbish' at NASUWT event.

Education Secretary claimed staff were failing to to promote teaching. 

NUT plans to strike over Government converting schools into academies.

Executive NUT member Ian Murch said union will 'fight for what is right'.

Nicky Morgan was jeered and heckled at a conference of teachers today - while another union voted for strike action over plans to turn state-run schools into academies.

The Education Secretary was greeted with laughter and shouts of 'rubbish' as she praised the government's recent education reforms at the NASUWT annual conference.

Ms Morgan received an even more hostile reception when she claimed staff were failing to do enough to promote teaching.

She was the first Conservative Education Secretary to address the event since 1997.

But as Ms Morgan was greeted with a frosty reception at Birmingham's ICC arena, members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), meeting at their annual conference in Brighton, where plotting action that could chaos in schools across the country.

NUT members voted overwhelmingly against what they consider to be the privatisation of the education system, by converting them into academies.

Executive member Ian Murch said the measures would see 'schools stolen from their local communities'.

He said: 'We will stand up for pupils, for patients and for teachers, and we will lead the campaign for sanity. We will fight the forced academisation of our schools.

'We will fight for what is right and we will fight until we win.'

It is likely proposals will be made for a one-day strike in the summer, as well as potential for further strikes, should members agree.

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