The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) was the

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and

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for people working with those above statutory school age, and primarily concerned with providing education, training or research. In the

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sector it was mainly concentrated in the Post 16 sector. In 2004 NATFHE celebrated 100 years since the

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-based Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI) was formed. ATTI grew and became NATFHE on 1 January 1976 following amalgamation with the

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. As of 2005 it had 67,000 members. On 2 December 2005 the results of a membership ballot on a merger of

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and NATFHE were announced. The merger was supported by 79.2% of AUT and 95.7% of NATFHE members who voted. The two unions amalgamated on 1 June 2006, and then entered a transitional year until full operational unity was achieved in June 2007. The new union is called 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" ...

(UCU). Until the merger, AUT and NATFHE members in higher education were involved in ongoing 'action short of a strike' - including boycotting setting and marking exams and other coursework in universities and this action continued under the UCU banner. AUT and NATFHE rejected an offer of 12.6% over three years which was made on 8 May, and a further offer of 13.12% over three years made on 30 May. Concerns grew that students might not be able to graduate in 2006 until the industrial action was suspended at midnight on 7 June while members were balloted on a new offer. On the last day of its final conference NATFHE passed motion 198C, a call to boycott Israeli academics who did not vocally speak out against their government. This was met with criticism from the

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, a representative of the British Government, Nobel laureates and even the

General Secretaries

:1904: John Wilson :1908: Percy Abbott :192x: J. Wickham Murray :1941?: William Evans :195x: A. E. Evans :1955: Ernest Arthur Seeley :1960:

Edward Britton Sir Edward Louis Britton Order of the British Empire, CBE (4 December 1909 – 3 January 2005) was a British people, British trade union leader. Britton studied at Bromley Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he edited the ''Cam ...

:1969: Tom Driver :1977:

Stan Broadbridge Stanley R. Broadbridge (1928 – 22 November 1978) was a British trade unionist, author, and political activist. Born in Barnet, Middlesex, Broadbridge joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in the late 1940s, and argued that the ...

:1979: Peter Dawson :1989:

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:1994:

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:1997: Paul Mackney

Footnotes

External links

Catalogue of the ATTI archives
held at the

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Catalogue of the NATFHE archives
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