Education Officer Job Details

The General Federation of Trade Unions

The General Federation of Trade Unions Educational Trust

Over the next two years we will provide more education opportunities, more flexibly to more learners at all levels in the unions. We believe trade union education must be kept public and not privatised and delivered by unregulated companies. We believe all unions want value for money in education delivery and quality learning that will grow a new generation of leaders and activists in the unions. We have made new and strengthened long established partnerships with institutions committed to excellence in trade union education delivery. We are pleased this year to be working closely with Ruskin and Northern Colleges and the University of Wolverhampton. We work wherever we can with the Workers’ Education Association, Culture Matters, and the network of Independent Working Class Education activists. We have promoted the pioneering work of many overseas trade union educators, most recently the work of ESNA in Latin America. More such partnerships will develop this year. We have established a new network of academics and trainers keen to support trade union learning for our affiliates. We continue to provide customised training for many unions, we manage education administration for some and we regularly hold meetings for education officers as our contribution to their continuing professional development. We have created an opportunity for educationalists to network to develop the trade union education curriculum and will in 2017 produce a book of essays on trade union

in conjunction with affiliates and education officers has comprehensively reviewed its

“It is impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.” Michael Foot. “We want to see the necessary economic knowledge imparted in our labour organisations, so that labour in the future shall not be made the shuttlecock of political parties. Our Trade Unions shall be centres of enlightenment and not merely the meeting place for paying contributions and receiving donations…our ideal is a co operative commonwealth.” Tom Mann and Ben Tillett, The ‘New’ Trade Unionism, 1890.

education provision .