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At their 57th annual conference, held at Torquay from 28–30 May, the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions successfully moved a resolution that the body should seek affiliation to the TUC forthwith. Thus the ATTI become the first teachers' organization to realize its responsibilities as a trade union body. Its 24 000 members may look with some amusement at the antics of the NUT (whose membership rights they also hold) at whose Easter conference a similar motion was in effect rejected. Perhaps an interchange of initials is indicated and in future one should talk of the NAT and the UTTI. Quite rightly it was put that not only the future power of the organization, but the strength of further education depended on such a move. Indeed the non‐partisan wing of the TUC will itself be strengthened by affiliation.