It comes after the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommended scrapping mandatory pay points and instead linking pay progression for classroom teachers to annual appraisals judged against the new Teachers’ Standards.
The STRB had been asked by education minister Michael Gove to consider plans for performance-related pay as well as proposals to regionalise public sector pay by bringing it in line with the local private sector. This plan could have seen teachers’ pay cut by as much as 18 per cent in some regions.
However, the STRB rejected regionalising public sector pay, and has advised that a “broad national framework” of pay be kept for teachers including a higher pay band for London and fringe areas and the retention of the upper pay scale.
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