The Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (ATCDE) was an organisation dedicated to the training and education of teachers in the United Kingdom, as well as the representation of members in the negotiation of bargaining issues.
History
The formal training of teachers in England began on a small scale with
Borough Road College
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, London, around 1798, and developed slowly for the next hundred years. During the final two decades of the nineteenth century, many professional bodies emerged and grew quickly. This, together with the government's decision in 1890 to expand the number of colleges available to non-residential students, is believed to be the impetus for founding the association for the employees of such colleges in 1891.
[Browne, Joan D. "Teachers of Teachers", Hodder and Stoughton. 1979] This was the direct forerunner of the ATCDE.
ATCDE was founded in 1943 and merged the Training Colleges Association and the Council of Principals. ATCDE membership was principally drawn from teacher training colleges and university education departments.
One of ATCDE's subsidiary roles was to supply information concerning the admissions process, involving the
Central Register and Clearing House
The Central Register and Clearing House (CRCH) was an administrative organisation in teacher education in England and Wales which existed for almost sixty years. It pre-dated by some thirty years a similar organisation for university courses ( UCC ...
and the
Graduate Teacher Training Registry
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** Alumnus, a former student who has either attended or graduated from an institution
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.
In comparison with other education unions, the ATCDE was small in size, having some 5,000 members in 1967 and peaking at 7,000 in 1972-3.
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Serious reductions in teacher training provision occurred during the early 1970s. It was forecasted that between 1974 and 1981 the number of institutions would fall from 159 to 75, and the number of students from 117,000 to 43,770.][Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 July 1977]
In 1976, ATCDE merged with the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI) to form the .University and College Union
The University and College Union (UCU) is a British trade union in further and higher education representing over 120,000 academics and support staff.
UCU is a vertical union representing casualised researchers and teaching staff, "permanent" ...
.
Influence
The ATCDE has been called "hugely influential".
Presidents of the ATCDE
*1943 Dr Helen Woodhouse
*1946 Mr A E Dean
*1955 Dr G B Jeffrey
*1957 Miss D Dymond
*1960 Sir Charles Morris
*1963 Dr F A Vick
*1973 Sir Derman Christopher
References
External links
Catalogue of the ATCDE archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collecti ...
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Higher education organisations based in the United Kingdom
Teacher associations based in the United Kingdom
Teacher training colleges in the United Kingdom
Tertiary education trade unions
Trade unions established in 1943
Trade unions disestablished in 1976
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