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Admission Impossible
Conference 2007 certainly went off with a bang with our student and newly-qualified members taking centre stage.
Executive members Helen Brook and Jovan Trkulja led the resolution calling for ATL's continued support for the NUS's Admission Impossible campaign.
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it," said Helen Brook, "involves saying no to soaring levels of debt and saying no to any attempt to lift the £3,000 cap on fees; saying no to the marketisation of education; and saying yes to free education for all.
"You have three minutes to recruit all Conference members and unanimously accept this resolution. As always, should any member of your team be caught up in or crippled by debt, the government will disavow all knowledge of your actions."
To cries of assent, members of the new teacher forum took the stage. "It is an appalling way for anyone to start in a profession" declared Ruth Hanson of the increased debt that increases in tuition fees will lead to. Richard Marshall agreed: "ATL is the education union - let's show our student members this!"
The group did not fail in their mission as the resolution was unanimously passed. Not a single person in the hall voted against, highlighting ATL's ongoing commitment to supporting the issues affecting the newest entrants to the profession.
