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Performance-related pay – two months in

Pay and conditions
What ever you think about the merits of performance-related pay, it has arrived in our classrooms. Suzanne O’Connell looks at how the early stages of implementation are working out in practice

It sounds simple. The best teachers get the best pay. 

Of course, there have been previous attempts to make performance-related-pay a meaningful feature of teachers’ salary structure. The introduction of the threshold had, as its intention, that those “going the extra mile” would receive more. 

However, the reality was that headteachers and their governing bodies tended to carry on as before with the vast majority securing the move onto the upper pay scale with relatively little extra to do. 

This time the changes to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) are more extensive. They are set against a general opening up of the teaching workforce with academies and free schools able to recruit teaching staff without qualified teacher status. 

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