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PAT WELCOMES NEW GENERAL SECRETARY

03 January 2006

The Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) has welcomed its new General Secretary, Philip Parkin, who took up office on 1 January 2006, following the retirement of Jean Gemmell on 31 December 2005.

The ‘Council Preferred Candidate’, Philip Parkin was returned unopposed in the election for General Secretary in May 2005.

Philip was born in County Durham in 1950. He attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Darlington and then took a degree in Textiles and Industrial Management at Leeds University. On graduation, he took a PGCE at City of Leeds and Carnegie College and was offered a teaching post in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.

Philip taught in infant schools before moving into the junior sector in 1990. Before taking up office as General Secretary, he was Deputy Head of Old Clee Junior School, Grimsby, until December 2005.

He served PAT as a Field Officer for North and North East Lincolnshire, Federation Secretary of PAT’s North East Lincolnshire Federation and a Council Member for the East Midlands region, and represented PAT nationally at a number of forums.

Philip Parkin also has a DIPSE (Diploma in Professional Studies in Education) in Education Management, a DipEd in Action Research and an MEd in Action Research.



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