| Administrative History | The Staffordshire Teachers' County Association, part of the National Union of Teachers, was founded in 1903, the year of one of the major Education Acts which saw the abolition of School Boards and the transfer of education functions to the County Councils and County Boroughs. There was a network of local associations across the county. All teachers who were members of the NUT through a local association were also members of the STCA. Each local association was entitled to send one delegate to the Council per 100 members. The STCA had various committees, and two major sub-sections - the County Council Section and County Borough Section, each made up of members of the Council.
The aims of the Association are recorded in the 1938 report, including to link local associations and to voice educational policy, to enable collective consideration of problems and opinions and disseminate information, to safeguard the interests of the child, to obtain an extension of the educational facilities (mental and physical), to encourage educational research, to take united action where necessary, to assist local associations in campaigns, to publish considered criticism on the action of pubilc bodies as affecting education, to keep the public informed on educational matters through the press and public meetings, and to further the interests of the Benevolent and Orphans Fund and to encourage membership of the Teachers' Provident Society.
An article on its organisation and work can also be found in the magazine for 1952 (7482/14).
Many of the magazines/annual reports were from the papers of the late WW Greenwood, local treasurer and committee member and committee member/chairman of the NUT Benevolent & Orphan Fund, who taught in Darlaston and Wednesbury (head teacher for 30 years).
By 2018 this organisation has become part of the National Education Union. |