Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association
Founded in 1944, the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association is Scotland's second largest teachers' union, set up to focus on secondary issues, initially as a reaction to the perception of undue influence exercised on national education issues at that time by the primary sector.
The SSTA is affiliated to the STUC and Education International.Aims
The SSTA aims to:
- Advance education in Scotland
- Safeguard and promote interests of Scottish secondary teachers in all matters, especially those that affect salaries and conditions of service
To promote these aims, the Association strives to:
- Ensure that the secondary view is heard
- Formulate policies that reflect views and needs of members
- Respond to consultations on educational matters
- Represent members and their views to SED, SQA, GTCS, and other national bodies such as SCRE and Learning and Teaching Scotland
- Advise members on curricular, professional, and contractual matters
- Campaign to maintain educational standards
- Negotiate salaries and conditions of service in the SNCT
- Campaign for improvement, and against deterioration, in salaries and conditions of service
Past presidents
- 1944 - J G Lindsey M.A B.Sc F.R.S.E
- 1945 - James Porter M.A
- 1947 - W M L Dewar M.A
- 1949 - Agnes McKendrick M.A
- 1951 - Alexander Allan M.A
- 1953 - Alexander R Robertson M.A
- 1955 - Arthur D Brown B.Com
- 1957 - James Docherty M.A
- 1959 - J N C Clark M.A Ph.D
- 1961 - Albert Anderson M.A B.Sc
- 1963 - James Miller M.A B.Sc
- 1965 - David Low B.Sc
- 1967 - Neil Foggie D.A
- 1969 - Gladys M Cairns M.A
- 1971 - John Vallely M.A B.A
- 1973 - E R Landsman M.A
- 1975 - L H Inglis Dip.Tech
- 1977 - J McDRoy D.A
- 1979 - Alistair B Fulton M.A
- 1981 - John D Gray M.A M.Sc
- 1983 - Douglas Campbell M.A
- 1985 - Donald C Halliday B.Sc
- 1987 - Thomas Wallace B.Sc
- 1989 - Ian M Goldsack M.A
- 1991 - John Small B.Ed
- 1993 - Marie T Allan M.A
- 1995 - Barbara E Clark M.A
- 1997 - W A L Guthrie B.Sc
- 1999 - William S Fitzpatrick B.A
- 2001 - G M T Sturrock M.A
- 2003 - Alan McKenzie M.A
- 2005 - Albert F S McKay B.Sc
- 2007 - Ann L Ballinger B.A
- 2009 - Peter Wright M.A
- 2011 - Margaret Smith B.A B.Ed
- 2013 - James B Forbes M.A
- 2015 - Euan Duncan B.A
