NUT reaction to Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party Conference

25 September 2006

Commenting on Gordon Brown’s speech to the Labour Party Conference Steve Sinnott General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said:

“Gordon Brown is to be congratulated for stating that his mission is to make this country the world’s number one in education.

“His repeated commitment to increase the spending on state school pupils at the 2006 spending levels of private schools is precisely the boost schools need.

“By targeting the invidious gap between state and private school spending he has shown that he understands the needs of children. It is exactly the kind of vision we want from this Government

“Gordon Brown has said that the increases in education spending will happen step by step. The  NUT is committed to measuring this and will be publishing yearly the Gordon Brown index.