England‘s education system risks being completely privatised within three years, the leader of one of the country‘s largest teaching unions has predicted.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), whose union will strike in the capital over teachers‘ pensions on Wednesday, said the trade union movement could be haunted by „the spectre of a completely privatised education service by the end of the coalition‘s first term in government“ unless it took significant action.