| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/2/18 |
| Title | Burnham Committee |
| Date | 1949 - 1951 |
| Description | Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), the Board of Education, Local Education Committees, Members of Parliament including Lennox Boyd, Henry Price and Geoffrey Hutchinson, NUWT members regarding:
Letters of acknowledgement from Local Education Committee's and County Councils of the NUWT letter about the Burnham Committee - sometimes these state the organisation's position on the Burnham Committee proposals and on equal pay
Requests from NUWT branches, Education Committees, and County Councils for copies of the NUWT statement on the Burnham Committee proposals
Statistics detailing the figures by which men and women teachers will benefit by the Burnham recommendations and showing the differentiation between women and men's salaries under the new proposals
Equal pay
Replies from MPs regarding the Burnham Proposals, equal pay and whether they will support a motion put forward to Irene Ward
Details of actions taken by NUWT members to protest against the Burnham salary recommendations, for example writing to their MP
Reports from NUWT members who have attended teacher's meetings calling for salary increases
Copies of letters sent by schools regarding dissatisfaction with the inequalities in salaries for men and women which are built into the Burnham salary recommendations
Press cuttings, typed extracts and journals regarding:
Reports of the Burnham Committee and negotiations
Constitution of the Burnham Committee
Reports of the National Union of Teachers conference and their calls for increases in teachers salaries
Reports of NUWT conferences
Report of a resolution passed at the National Association of Schoolmasters conference that sex education is the duty of the parent and not of the school
Teacher's salaries
'Public Service and Administration - an Independent non-party monthly publication' - issues from March and April 1950 - discuss the Burnham Committee and highlight and support the arguments for equal pay for women teachers
'The Woman Teacher', November 1950, December 1950 - discusses the Burnham proposals
NUWT Circulars and memorandums regarding the Burnham Committee, and protests from the NUWT about the refusal to implement equal pay
Memorandum on Schoolmasters Salaries by the National Association of Schoolmasters - explains why they do not believe in the policy of equal pay |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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