| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/39/29 |
| Title | Staffing |
| Date | 1939 - 1958 |
| Description | Press cuttings on various subjects including:
Conditions of employment for teachers employed by London Councy Council
Clerical assistance to Head Teachers
Shortage of women teachers, 1940s - 1950s
Unwillingness of council to consider part-time positions for women teachers
Shortage of school buildings and use of prefabricated buildings
Shortage of school dentists
Various impacts of the 1944 Education Act including overcrowding of schools, lack of teachers, lack of buildings, increased class sizes
Reassurances from Board of Education that no woman teacher in a recognised school would be called up under the National Service Act
Equal Pay for women teachers
NUWT recommendations on the reduction of class sizes
Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT) and G. A. Coombs (London Unit of NUWT) regarding London County Council's decision not to submit a proposal on providing clerical assistance to Head Teachers
'Report of the Working Party on the Supply of Women Teachers', Ministry of Education publication, 1949
Board of Education memorandums regarding subjects including:
Rates of attendance and concerns over absenteeism in schools
Recruitment of Teachers from Training Colleges and Departments
More men teachers in schools
Foreign Assistants in Secondary Schools
Conditions of Employment of Foreign Assistant Teachers in Secondary Schools
Correspondence between the Ministry of Education and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT) regarding:
Decision by Hertfordshire Education Authority to only appoint women teachers in infant schools so as to reduce the number of women teachers employed in excess of the 'quota' and to enable more male teachers to get appointments. Includes related press cuttings and reports from Hertfordshire Education Authority, 1953 - 1954
Shortage of women staff for infant schools, 1949 - 1950
Correspondence between A Muriel Pierotti (NUWT) and Professor George Barker Jeffery and Dorothy Ellen Marion Gardner (University of London Institute of Education) regarding the shortage of women teachers going into infant school teacher training. This includes the results of a questionnaire distributed to students in the Department of Child Development at the Institute of Education asking them what discourages them from infant school teaching, 1947
Correspondence between the NUWT and teachers regarding staffing levels in schools
Board of Education Circular 115 'Appointment of Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools', 21 June 1946, which suggests teachers be transferred downwards in order to accommodate male teachers at the Secondary School level.
Correspondence between the NUWT and Local County Councils with regards to Circular 115 and their disagreement with the implications of the circular
Board of Education Circular 174 'Supply and employment of teachers for primary and secondary schools', 16 June 1948. Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), I. Ward (Member of Parliament) and individual teachers
regarding concerns over the implication of Circular's 115 and 174, which tare that they lead to a quota system being imposed which they feel disadvantages women teachers in order to increase the number of male teachers |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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