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Britton studied at Bromley Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he edited the Cambridge Review.
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Edward Britton
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On graduating, he was unemployed for six months. He found work as a teacher, and immediately joined the National Union of Teachers (National Union of Teachers). He was exempted from military service during World World War II due to his asthma.
In 1951, he became head of Warlingham School in Surrey, then in 1956 became national president of the National Union of Teachers. In 1960 Britton was recruited as General Secretary of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes, during which time he worked with Regional Prentice to challenge the outcome of the Robbins Committee, and successfully lobbied for the opening of polytechnics.
He resigned his post in 1969, in order to become General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, which he immediately convinced to affiliate to the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1975, becoming a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and also worked at Canterbury Christ Church College and served on Acas" central committee.
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