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Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association

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Founded
  
1944

Affiliation
  
STUC, EI

Members
  
7,205

Office location
  
Edinburgh

Full name
  
Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association

Key people
  
Euan Duncan, President 2015 - Seamus Searson, General Secretary 2015 -

Founded in 1944, the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) is Scotland's second largest teachers' union, set up to focus on secondary issues, initially as a reaction to the perception of undue influence exercised on national education issues at that time by the primary sector.

The SSTA is affiliated to the STUC and Education International.

Aims

The SSTA aims to:

  • Advance education in Scotland
  • Safeguard and promote interests of Scottish secondary teachers in all matters, especially those that affect salaries and conditions of service

    • To promote these aims, the Association strives to:

  • Ensure that the secondary view is heard
  • Formulate policies that reflect views and needs of members
  • Respond to consultations on educational matters
  • Represent members and their views to SED, SQA, GTCS, and other national bodies such as SCRE and Learning and Teaching Scotland
  • Advise members on curricular, professional, and contractual matters
  • Campaign to maintain educational standards
  • Negotiate salaries and conditions of service in the SNCT
  • Campaign for improvement, and against deterioration, in salaries and conditions of service

    • References

    Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Wikipedia
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