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StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
LevelFile
Reference Number UWT/F/37
Title[NUWT Devon County Association records]
Date1929 - 1958
DescriptionCorrespondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (General Secretaries, NUWT) and members of the Devon County Association regarding the organisation and management of the County Association.
The correspondence covers:
Decision to disband the Devon County Association, 1958
Request for current salary scales for teachers
Request to Muriel Pierotti for assistance in drafting a statement expressing concern over proposal of Devon Education Committee to lower entrance examinations for boys, to a lower level than that for girls - includes copy of statement
Notification of changes of address
Membership applications and renewals
Update of news from individual members, for example news on illness in their family, retirement from the teaching profession, resignation from the union, and other changes of circumstances
Reports of visits to training colleges to encourage women teacher students to join the NUWT
Enquiry regarding obtaining a print of 'To Be a Woman', the Jill Craigie film on equal pay
Letters sent to members retiring from the teaching profession, wishing them well and encouraging them to retain association with the NUWT
Standard letter sent to retired members asking if they would be interested in helping with a campaign drive by addressing envelopes
Absenteeism among school children
Expressions of thanks from the General Secretary to those undertaking posts for the branch and those retiring from posts in the branch
Subscriptions to 'The Woman Teacher'
Request and arrangements for visits of NUWT Organisers to the area
Reports of propaganda and campaign work undertaken by members of the Devon County Association
Donations towards the Headquarters fund (following the damage sustained by an Air Raid attack)
Reports of County Association meetings
Updates from members regarding evacuation and any damage or injury sustained by them or their family and friends (including the injury of a member, Mabel Pitts in an Air Raid attack) - and letters of support sent in reply from the General Secretary, 1942
Uncertified teachers and request for clarification of the NUWT position on this
Requests for NUWT literature
Rural education
Problems with the local branch of the Head Teachers Association regarding rumoured limits on eligibility to members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT)
Handbook of Regulations for Wilts County Council General Education Committee
News of which branch members plan to attend annual conference
Organisers reports detailing visits to various schools in the Devon area and reporting on the reactions of women teachers to the NUWT
Reports of visits from NUWT Organisers and Central Council members detailing how they felt the branch was being run

Press clippings reporting on meetings of the Devon County Association and meetings held by the NUWT to discuss education in rural areas
Extent3 folders
AccessStatusOpen

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