Education
Sinnott was the first President of the Union to have attended a comprehensive school.
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Sinnott was the first President of the Union to have attended a comprehensive school.
Born in Liverpool, Sinnott became deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in 1994 in the middle of his year as National President of the Union. He took a four-year Bachelor in Social Sciences at Middlesex Polytechnic, graduating in 1974, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk in 1975. His first teaching post in 1975 was at Shorefields Comprehensive, Liverpool, where he taught humanities.
In 1979 he moved to Broughton High School near Preston, where he became head of economics and business studies.
He stayed with the school until his election as National Union of Teachers Deputy General Secretary in November 1994. Sinnott was an outspoken critic of both teaching salaries and the British Government"s City academies, and in his role as General Secretary of the Union, he was to have led the first national teachers strike in the United Kingdom since 1987, over the issue of pay.
Following his death from a heart attack, the Union said that the strike would still go ahead.