Practical concerns over the implementation of performance-related pay must be addressed by government and schools, a right-wing think-tank has warned.
A paper by Policy Exchange cites a lack of expertise among headteachers, a lack of guidance from Ofsted or government, and teachers’ lack of faith in assessment methods as key challenges.
It also warns that performance-related pay must be used as a “real reward for excellence and not a way of holding down the overall pay bill”.
However, the report has drawn fierce criticism from teaching unions after it dismissed objections to the overall principle of performance-related pay as “without merit” and claimed that a majority of teachers support the policy.
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