The International Federation of Secondary Teachers (french: Fédération internationale des professeurs de l'enseignement secondaire officiel, FIPESO) was a

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bringing together trade unions representing

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

teachers.

History

The federation was established in 1912 at a meeting in Brussels attended by unions from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Initially named the International Bureau of National Associations of Teachers in Public Secondary Schools, it became moribund during

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, but was revived after the war and began growing. By 1932, it had 26 affiliates, with a total of 100,000 members. It became the "International Federation of Secondary Teachers" in 1935. In 1921, the federation launched the ''International Bulletin'' journal, for the discussion of education issues. After

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, the federation also began campaigning on professional and social topics. It built closer contacts with the

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(IFTA), which represented primary school teachers, while with the International Teachers' Federation and World Organisation of the Teaching Profession (WOTP), it formed the loose Comité d'Entente, to lobby international organisations on education issues. In 1952, FIPESO, the IFTA and the WOTP merged to form the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession. FIPESO continued as an autonomous section of the new federation. Its membership initially grew, as secondary education expanded in many countries, but fell during the 1970s, rebounding in the 1980s as it attracted members in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In 1993, it dissolved, its remaining members joining the new

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Leadership

General Secretary

:1921: Achille Beltette :1933: Charles Boulanger :1939: Janet M. Lawson :1954:

Andrew Hutchings Andrew William Seymour Hutchings (3 December 1907 – 30 October 1996) was a British trade union leader. Hutchings studied at Cotham School in Bristol and then St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before becoming a teacher. His first appointmen ...

:1965: Émile Hombourger :1972: André Drubay :1982: Louis Weber

Presidents

:1921: Albert Fedel :1930s: G. R. Parker :1940s: Karl Kärre :Émile Hombourger :H. Reinhardt :1965:

:1973: Franz Ebner :1977: Otto Kaltenborn :1981:

Joyce Baird Joyce Elizabeth Leslie Baird (8 December 1929 – 3 October 2015) was a British trade unionist. Baird studied at The Abbey School, Reading, then at Newnham College, Cambridge, before training as a secretary. In 1952, she worked briefly as se ...

:1985: Ernst Kiel :1989: Kieran Mulvey :1991:

References

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