| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/8/5 |
| Title | Training of Teachers |
| Date | 1923 - 1955 |
| Description | Press cuttings regarding subjects relating to teacher training including:
Graduate teacher training programmes
Shortage of teachers in London County Council
Teacher Training Scheme set up in 1944 to increase number of teachers
Shortage of Teacher Training Colleges
Free training and grants for trainee teachers
Problems with the pay of teachers in the forces - their pay not being raised under the Burnham Award
Specialist subject teaching
Shortage of teachers
Shortage of male teachers during the second world war and the perceived effect on children's behaviour
NUWT statement to the press regarding the importance of training for teachers in order to raise the status of the profession
Teachers salaries
Local Education Authority policies on the recruitment and training of teachers
Debates over whether teachers should be trained, 1923
'The Student and National Insurance'
State scholarships and provision for students
'Survey of Incidental Expenditures Incurred by Students in Training Colleges', 1955
'Report of the Second Annual Conference of Education Students Societies', National Union of Students, 1939
Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), individual members of the NUWT, the National Union of Students (NUS), and local education authorities, regarding a number of subjects including:
Plans for, and the establishment of, a Training College Committee which would represent and investigate the needs and conditions of students studying at Teacher Training Colleges. The Committee was part of the NUS
NUWT representation at meetings of the Education Committee of the NUS
Notes from an NUWT observer sent to an NUS conference on 'Challenge to Education', 1942
Copies of the NUS 'Training College Bulletin', for November 1940 and March 1941 (this is a typed and photocopied bulletin) |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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