A North East teacher has been elected the first single General Secretary of the country's largest teaching union. Primary school teacher Daniel Kebede will step into the role of General Secretary of the National Education Union from September 1.
He was elected to succeed Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney who stand down at the end of August. Mr Kebede said: “I am honoured to have been elected as the next general secretary of the National Education Union.
“I would like to thank everyone who has supported and campaigned for me. Education needs fundamental change – an end to real-terms pay cuts; an end to the massive overwork of staff: the end of Ofsted’s punitive regime and real increases in school funding.
