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Christine Blower, Baroness Blower

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She told delegates, "As a parent and a teacher, I will continue to support campaigns to rid education of blanket testing of our children." There was much criticism of this 'direct action' in the press, but defending herself, Blower argued that " did something considerably more useful with her time
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Her opposition has centred on the tests' use in the compilation of national league tables, which the NUT would also like to see abolished. Blower has referred to the tests as "high stakes", with teachers under pressure to narrow the curriculum, "skewing everything to enable their pupils to jump
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With the threatened break up of the ILEA, Blower moved back to Hammersmith and Fulham in 1990 and concentrated on working with young teenagers at risk of care or custody at Farm Lane Adolescent Resource Centre. After its closure, she was redeployed as a member of the local authority's Behaviour
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Other positions include national vice-president in 1996 and then the 125th national president of the NUT from 28 March 1997 to 10 April 1998, succeeding Carole Regan. Blower used this platform to argue for a greater role for teachers in the running of
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rebranding of the party. Two years later, she told a journalist that she was "to the left of old Labour" and confirmed that she had no affiliation to any political party or group. However, in 2000, she was a member of the
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Support Team. As she explained in 1997, "The brief of the team is to try and deal with the behaviour in order to calm the children down, get them focussed in on tasks so they can stay in the mainstream".
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After the sudden death of Sinnott while in post, she became acting general secretary on 5 April 2008, and led the union's first national strike in two decades – over teachers' pay – a fortnight later.
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magazine in August 2010, it was claimed that NUT activists were "bullying" head teachers known to be considering academy conversion and, with it, a break from local authority control.
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Blower has disputed the success of the Swedish system as well as American charter schools, both regularly cited by Michael Gove as exemplars of narrowing the social divide.
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Blower joined the NUT at the start of her teaching career. Between 1986 and 2004 she held various posts in the West London association, including Secretary.
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In her presidential address to NUT Conference on 29 March 1997, Blower reported that in the previous year her daughter Sophie had been withdrawn from the
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Under Blower's leadership, the NUT has published its proposals for alternative approaches to assessment, most recently in conjunction with the
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In March 2016, ahead of her departure as general secretary of the NUT, Blower announced that she would be joining the Labour Party "led by
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coalition, whilst studying ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean and Middle East. She followed this up with an MA in
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re-elected with a 17,000 majority. She was later elected Deputy general secretary on 28 January 2005 under his successor
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Her partner of thirty seven years, Dennis Charman, a retired teacher, was secretary of Hammersmith and Fulham NUT.
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than if she'd been at school during the tests". This element of her speech was portrayed by some as an example of
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situation that comprehensives were set up to avoid". Her daughter Sophie later attended the school.
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stream. Having contemplated a career in law or probation work, she instead trained as a teacher.
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Blower has aligned herself to long-standing NUT criticisms of the standard assessment tests (or
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and the schools regulator. Of the latter, she argued that "much of what people have to do for
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through a series of unnecessary hoops". Addressing the Government's position in the magazine
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In February 2013, in line with the NUT, Blower was among those who gave their support to the
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in 2010. A further document co-authored by the three unions was published in December 2010.
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as it did in the 1970s". At this election, she ran for election as the party candidate in
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On 5 May 2009, she was elected unopposed as the first woman general secretary of the NUT.
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Statement by the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers
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Her father was a coalminer in his younger days in the north east of England, and then a
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to mixed-ability teaching, a style of teaching she prefers as it does not "create the
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Blower failed in her bid to be elected as general secretary in 1999, with incumbent
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In 1980, she became Head of Modern Languages at St Edmund's Secondary School in
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newspaper. She also gave a speech at the People's Assembly Conference held at
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She was elected to the National Executive of the NUT between 1992 and 2000.
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and on the multi-member party list system; she was unsuccessful on both.
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and for "properly resourced nursery provision". She was a critic of
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Common Ground on Assessment and Accountability in Primary Schools
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The NUT under Blower's leadership has been a vocal critic of the
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Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
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and attended Ellingham County Primary School and then
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Blower was a Labour member until the early 1990s. In
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Index

The Right Honourable

Surrey
National Union of Teachers
Steve Sinnott
Kevin Courtney
Labour
National Union of Teachers
Labour Party
General Secretary
Unite Against Fascism
Home Counties
GPO
Labour
Chessington
Tolworth Girls School
bi-lateral school
grammar
Holland Park School
Kensington and Chelsea
Inner London Education Authority
streamed teaching
sheep and goats
Fulham
Quintin Kynaston School
Westminster
Pupil Referral Units
grammar schools
SATs
Ofsted

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