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Thomas Heller (trade unionist)

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Heller became the full-time secretary of the NUET in 1873 and, in this role, campaigned for and end to payment by results, for improved training for teachers, with teacher training colleges to be linked to universities, and for teaching to become a profession with legal registration. He campaigned
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for the establishment of a pension scheme for teachers, and also edited the annual
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General secretaries of the National Union of Teachers
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Training College before taking up a teaching post in
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British
schoolteacher
trade unionist
Bishopsteignton
Devon
Cheam
Surrey
Charles Bromby
Cheltenham
London
National Union of Elementary Teachers
London School Board
National Union of Teachers



Heller, Thomas Edmund
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography




National Union of Elementary Teachers
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