Papers and correspondence on Government proposals for teachers' pay and conditions. Includes: letter from Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales [later Lord Crickhowell], forwarding a copy of the proposals; reaction from the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations; letters from the Burnham Primary and Secondary Committee; National Union of Teachers' briefing on the right to negotiate; research notes from the House of Commons Library; extracts from Hansard; transcript of a Weekend World television interview with Fred Smithies, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, and Doug McAvoy, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT). |