GTC publishes names of candidates for 2008 Council elections
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00
The General Teaching Council for England (GTC) has today published the list of candidates standing in its 2008 Council elections. Voting takes place between February 22 and March 23.
There are 25 places for directly elected teachers on Council. These are:
- 11 primary teachers
- 11 secondary teachers
- 1 primary head teacher
- 1 secondary head teacher
- 1 teacher from a special school (who may be a teacher or head teacher).
There are 14 teachers competing for the 11 primary seats; 26 candidates for the 11 secondary seats and five primary heads seeking election in the primary head teacher category.
In two categories – for a secondary head and a special school teacher - there is a single candidate, who is therefore elected unopposed. The elected Special School candidate is Stephen Viner, from a Community Special School in Hertfordshire, and the secondary head is David Lowe, from a Community High School in Lancashire.
Commenting, GTC Chair Judy Moorhouse says:
'We have achieved a good range of candidates, so we have met our first objective. I would like to have seen more people standing, but it is a big commitment and teachers have many competing calls on their time.
'I do now urge teachers to vote – you can do so online or by post – it is for you to decide who will be working on behalf of teaching on the GTC Council for the next four years. We need a wide range of expertise and diversity on Council – from the very experienced to the relative newcomers, both full and part-time teachers, from all sections of the profession.'
The final candidate list is as follows:
Primary teachers
- Flora Barton, south Oxfordshire
- Paul Bird, Kingston-upon-Hull
- Sarah Bowie, Leeds and north Yorkshire
- Janis Butler, south Yorkshire
- Jennifer Caola, Bristol
- Philip Cole, West Midlands
- Lisa Copeland, West Sussex
- Christopher Gould, Cornwall
- Christine Green, Rotherham
- Derek Johns, Essex
- Anna Jordan, Northamptonshire
- Aaron King, Yorkshire
- Alex Parker, Oxford
- Sarah Reed, Cambridgeshire
Primary heads
- Debra Bailey, Warwickshire
- Christine Entwistle, Lancashire
- Eric Gledhill, north Yorkshire
- Misbah Mann, London
- Pete Strauss, Nottingham
Special school
- Stephen Viner, Hertfordshire
Secondary teachers
- Andrew Brown, Lancashire
- Peter Butler, Northumberland
- Andy Connell, Cumbria
- Dominic Coughlin, Isle of Wight
- Keith Cox, west Yorkshire
- Ian Edney, Hampshire
- Mauricio Galeano, London
- Badr-ul Haque, Birmingham
- Mark Harrison, Wiltshire
- Barbara Hibbert, north Yorkshire
- Andy Markwick, London
- Pete McAleer, Somerset
- Andrew Mckinnon, Nottingham
- Bulvinder Michael, Tameside
- Paul Washington Miller, London
- Gail Mortimer, Rochdale
- Annette Pateman, Lincolnshire/East Midlands
- Elizabeth Purnell, North West
- Simon Rees, Northumberland
- Alice Robinson, Lancashire
- Lee Ryder, Buckinghamshire
- Colin Surrey, Hertfordshire
- Isaac Taylor, Kent
- John Taylor, Devon
- Kathy Thomson, North East
- Tom Trust, Cornwall
Secondary heads
In 2004, the number of teachers standing for election was as follows:
- Primary teachers: 32
- Primary headteachers: 4
- Secondary teachers: 45
- Secondary headteachers: 1
- Special school teacher or head: 4
