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Considerations on performance-related pay

Pay and conditions
The first pay awards under performance-related pay will take place in September. Ben Solly looks at some recent research into this approach, and identifies what schools need to consider before making their first decisions.

 

There are many areas in education where we are currently dealing with new policies and significant changes in working practice for the first time and inevitably there will be a degree of uncertainty about what the impact of these raft of educational reforms will be.

However, one area which may be causing slightly more anxiety than others is the move to performance-related pay. In September, we will see, for the first time, pay decisions across the country being made based on the performance of teachers.

On the face of it, there is nothing too radical about this – we have always had a structure in place where teachers progressed up a pay scale on an annual basis, and in most cases this would have been based solely on whether they had achieved their performance management targets.

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