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Mary Bousted

Board Member

published 9 August 2019 updated 23 May 2022

Dr Mary Bousted is Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, UK. Mary represents the interests of her members to the government, and to a wide variety of other stakeholders. As the education union, NEU leads the debate on key educational issues with strong policy positions on, for example, assessment and curriculum changes, school accountability and school structures. Mary contributes regular articles for newspapers and education journals and appears frequently on national media. She sits on the executive committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and was a member of the ACAS board. Mary is also an accomplished public speaker and has debated at the Oxford Union.