Education secretary Michael Gove has set himself on a collision course with teachers after asking the teachers' pay body to back a move to performance-related pay.
Unions argue that it is simply too difficult to devise a fair system to link individual pupil achievements to teacher performance and that the current arrangements already give enough flexibility to reward good performance.
Mr Gove's stance has also clashed with the OECD. A briefing this week from the global research organisation emphasised the lack of any international evidence showing links between student performance and performance-based pay.
The School Teachers' Review Body (STRB), which covers England and Wales, has been asked by the Department for Education to look at “reducing rigidity" within the pay system. It is due to report on September 28 and its remit includes making recommendations on linking pay to performance and introducing regionalised pay – linking pay to local private sector rates instead of a national standardised pay scale.
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