§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science with which teachers' organisations she or her Department's officials have had separate discussions on issues raised in the current education debate.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsAt a series of meetings last November and December I met representatives of the teachers' organisations listed below, and I am currently holding a second series of consultations with the same organisations. Neither I nor my Department's officials have held separate meetings with indidual teacher associations as part of the formal process of consultation on the issues raised during the current debate on education. In the course of discussion on other matters with teachers' and other organisations and of recent wide-ranging speeches to the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters, education debate subjects have naturally been raised.
Teachers' Associations represented at meetings with the Secretary of State
National Union of Teachers
National Association of Schoolmasters
National Association of Head Teachers
Association of Head Mistresses
Head Masters Association
Association of Assistant Mistresses
Assistant Masters Association
National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
National Association of the Teachers of Wales
Association of University Teachers
Association of Polytechnic Teachers.