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THE incoming leader of Britain’s biggest education union slammed the government’s “mistreatment” of teachers and rising levels of child poverty today.
Daniel Kebede, who is set to replace Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney as the National Education Union’s (NEU) first sole general secretary in September, stressed education is the “great liberator.”
Addressing the final day of the union’s 2023 conference, he asked: “How can this country have a bright future when the government refuses to invest in it?”
The former union president urged delegates in Harrogate to keep fighting for their austerity-hit profession, saying: “When schools suffer, our children suffer.
“It matters that all children have hope — that is what education and the NEU is all about.”
To much applause, Mr Kebede pledged to build on the “great work” that the joint general secretaries have overseen since the merger of the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers led to the creation of the NEU in 2017.
