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PERFORMANCE-RELATED pay is holding down teachers’ wages, research showed yesterday.
Almost a quarter of teachers were still waiting by December last year to hear whether they would be awarded a pay rise for the current school year, according to a joint survey by teaching unions ATL and NUT.
The survey found that the Tories’ performance-related pay policy was being used to hold teachers’ wages down — particularly those working in academies.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities