§ Mr. Newtonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will state which teachers' unions or associations are at present represented on the Burnham Committee and which are not; 1110W and what are the criteria for deciding on such representation.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerThe associations represented on the Teacher Panels of the Burnham Committee are:—
- Association of Agricultural Education Staffs
- Association of Principals of Colleges
- Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters
- Incorporated Association of Assistant Mistresses
- Incorporated Association of Headmasters.
- Incorporated Association of Headmistresses.
- National Association of Head Teachers
- National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
- National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
- National Society for Art Education
- National Union of Teachers
The associations not represented on the committees are associations concerned with subject teaching—for example, the Association of Teachers of Domestic Science; the National Association of Teachers of Wales; the Professional Association of Teachers; the Association of Polytechnic Teachers; the Association of Career Teachers; the Headmasters' Conference; the Society of Assistants Teaching in Preparatory Schools; and the National Federation of Continuative Teachers' Associations.
On the last part of the Question I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary on 7th May to the Question from the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Stanbrook).—[Vol. 910, cc. 489–490.]