Black and Asian teachers are more likely than their White colleagues to have been turned down for salary rises under the performance-related pay (PRP) rules, new figures show.
A survey of 4,950 members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has also uncovered instances of teachers being turned down for progression because they do not have consistently outstanding teaching – a breach of the statutory rules for PRP.
The full implementation of PRP in September last year now means that teachers’ pay progression is linked to their performance based on annual appraisals. It saw an end to the old system of mandatory pay progression points.
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