Worsening Conditions in Teaching

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In the week in which we read of a proposal by a member of the Birmingham Education Committee to increase the working hours of teachers; we hear of unrest in a Manchester Technical College about threats to increase the number of weeks worked in the year. At one Manchester College, already the staff are working 30 consecutive weeks, and at another local college, from next year the staff will be working a 42-hour week year. A poster displayed in one College calls on the members of the Association of Teachers in Technical Instititions to act now. For at a time when the rest of industry is calling for shorter hours and longer holidays, serious threats are being aimed at the conditions in teachings If this is related to the ominious dilution which is likely to be involved with the introduction of "Instructors" under the new Industrial Training Act, it is clear wo the teaching unions act quickly teaching in technical colleges will ha ared to the de™@ands of industry rather than to the students! needs,