Kevin Courtney was born on 16 August 1959 and is a Welsh former school teacher, and the former joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, the largest teachers' trade union for England and Wales.
16 Facts About Kevin Courtney
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Kevin Courtney was born in Pontypridd, now in Rhondda Cynon Taf, earlier part of Mid Glamorgan, and Glamorgan before 1974.
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Kevin Courtney's mother was a cleaner at Glamorgan Polytechnic in Pontypridd, which became the Polytechnic of Wales in 1975, and the University of Glamorgan in 1992.
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Kevin Courtney went to Trefforest Primary School and Coedylan Comprehensive, now called Pontypridd High School.
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Kevin Courtney became a member of the NUT's national executive in 2006.
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Kevin Courtney became deputy General Secretary of the NUT in 2010.
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Kevin Courtney became acting-leader of the NUT in May 2016 when Christine Blower stepped down as general secretary.
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Kevin Courtney has been on the board of the Teaching Awards.
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Since then, Courtney has served as joint General Secretary of the NEU alongside Mary Bousted, who was General Secretary of the ATL.
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Kevin Courtney served until August 2023 on the General Council and Executive Committee of the Trades Union Congress, where since 2019 he was lead member on issues of digital change.
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Kevin Courtney has said he wants to have National Curriculum assessments tests abolished.
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Kevin Courtney has worked with the Anti Academies Alliance, a pressure group opposing the transfer of the operation of schools in England from the public sector to private-sector organisations.
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Kevin Courtney is critical of funding cuts to education which he feels lead to larger classes and less well qualified people teaching children.
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Kevin Courtney said, "Whoever caused this economic crisis, it wasn't our five-year-olds in schools now," Kevin Courtney fears many teachers could leave the profession.
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In June 2021, Kevin Courtney was asked his views on the vaccination of children to protect against Covid-19.
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Kevin Courtney married Polly Donnison in July 1989 in north-east London.