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NASUWT Conference: Immigrant salary bar makes recruitment crisis worse

TORY proposals to to raise the minimum salary threshold of foreign teachers will worsen the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, NASUWT said yesterday.

Home Secretary Theresa May is considering a raise to the minimum salary of migrant workers from outside the EU from £20,800 to £30,000.

Members of NASUWT have argued the policy should exempt teachers as the sector is already burdened with recruitment difficulties.

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